Marquez Smith is alleged to have gotten into a confrontation during the exchange for his 15-year-old daughter at a house in Covington on Sunday evening.

Deputies told WSB-TV 2 the daughter did not want to go with her dad and that he then went into the house to get a gun.

Smith is alleged to have opened fire on his ex-wife and her boyfriend as they sat inside their vehicle.

The couple tried to get away in the vehicle but crashed just two houses along, according to the TV station.

Police said the boyfriend died at the scene and that the mother succumbed to her injuries on the way to a nearby hospital.

The family of one of the victims told FOX 5 Atlanta that the couple’s 7-month-old child was in the car at the time of the shooting. None of children was hurt.

“We got three kids, two girls and a boy, 15, 8, and 7 months old that’s now gonna be without either parent and they need love, they need prayers, they just need an army,” Brittany Payne, a relative of one of the victims, told FOX 5.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a database that collects information about shootings from across the U.S., seven people in Covington have been shot dead so far this year.

Officers searched for Smith after he fled the scene, although he handed himself in to authorities at about midnight, WSB-TV reported.

He has since been charged with murder and aggravated assault and is set to appear in court later on Tuesday.

Newsweek has contacted the Newton County Sheriff’s Office for comment.

Intimate partner violence is a global problem and results in tens of thousands of deaths every single year.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, some 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020.

It said: “This means that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes.”

Research by Everytown, a gun safety group, shows 70 women are shot dead by an intimate partner every month in the U.S.

Earlier this year, a man shot his girlfriend at a Texas beef plant, wounding her, before he killed himself, according to police.

The San Angelo Police Department said the 57-year-old man and the 49-year-old woman were in a dating relationship and had been working at the Lone Star Beef plant.