An argument during a football watch party in Paloma Creek ended in gunfire, leaving one man dead and another facing a murder charge, according to the Little Elm Police Department.

Corey Green, 37, is being held on a $5 million bond in the Denton County Jail after allegedly retrieving a firearm during the altercation and shooting 40-year-old Vernelle Wright multiple times, police said.

Victim died at local hospital

Wright was taken to Baylor Scott & White Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:49 p.m. Monday.

The incident occurred just after 9 p.m. in the 2300 block of Okeefe Drive in Paloma Creek, outside Little Elm, after the argument escalated into the street, authorities said.

Corey Green, 37 Denton County Jail

Suspect fled, then surrendered

According to Little Elm police,

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