A dispute over music artists at a Paloma Creek football watch party on the evening of September 8, 2025, escalated into deadly violence. According to investigators, the argument spilled onto the 2300 block of Okeefe Drive just after 9 p.m., where a man allegedly produced a firearm and shot 40-year-old Vernelle Wright multiple times. Wright, a male from Little Elm, was found wounded and taken to Baylor Scott & White Hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that night.

An arrest affidavit cited by local outlets states Wright sustained several gunshot wounds, including to his back and head. Within hours a suspect turned himself in; Little Elm police identified 37-year-old Corey V. Green as the man who surrendered roughly three hours after the shooting and was booked just after midnight on September 9 on a murder charge. Authorities held him in the Denton County Jail on a $5 million bond while the investigation continued. Multiple agencies processed the scene and executed search warrants as detectives gathered evidence and witness accounts.

If anyone at the Paloma Creek watch party or nearby that night has information about the confrontation or the events that followed, please share what was seen or heard with investigators.