News 12 @ 11, September 7, 2008

AUGUSTA, Ga. --- Richmond County Investigators say a man murdered his ex-girlfriend and shot her boyfriend. What's worse, they say Earl Dinkins pulled the trigger in front of his own 2-year-old daughter.

"She gonna have some kind of problem for the rest of her life that she seen her mother get killed in front of her face and she saw her father do it," Annie Krrksey said.

Annie Krrksey lives on Southgate Drive, and she's one of many neighbors shocked to hear 34-year old Sirlinda Price was shot and killed early Sunday morning in her home.

"Very shocking. I heard absolutely nothing at that time of morning. And it just makes me thankful that me and my kids were accounted for and we were in our home safe," Jackie Freeman said.

Investigators say Price's boyfriend, 38-year-old Melroy Browman, was also shot, but was able to drive himself to the hospital.

"I just think it's a tragedy that it happened. It happening here or up in West Augusta. You know, it could happen anywhere," Freeman said.

And what would drive a man to shoot his ex-girlfriend in front of his own child is a question investigators say only Earl Dinkins can answer.

"I don't know what went down, he shouldn't have shot either one of them, but they should've talked it out," Krrksey said.

Instead, what happened here can't be changed. And although a little girl was spared physically, the emotional damage is done.

Investigators are looking for Earl Dinkins. Dinkins is considered armed and dangerous. He is driving a black, 1997 GMC Jimmy, with a Georgia retired army tag RA4511. If you have any information call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office at 706-821-1080.