Duncanville police arrested a murder suspect in Little Elm about 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

With the help of Denton County deputies and officers from the Little Elm Police Department, they detained Clayton C. Bookman, 35, wanted in the shooting death of Haranondez Love, 38, in Duncanville around noon on Saturday.

Shalonda Robertson said Bookman came to the home Love shared with her and her three children in the 700 block of Valley Hill Road and wanted to play dominoes.

After about half an hour, Love and Bookman decided to go to the store for cigarettes. Robertson said that as they rose from the table where they had been playing, Bookman produced a handgun and started shooting.

"I heard a noise and he was standing up and shooting at Haranondez," she said.

Love ran outside and collapsed in the front yard, fatally wounded, and Bookman drove away, she said.

"There was no argument," Robertson said. "He just flipped."

Five youngsters were also in the house at the time of the shooting, but only Love was hit.

A field agent of the Dallas County medical examiner's office pronounced Love dead at the scene.

Police said Sunday afternoon that Bookman was in the Duncanville city jail on a murder charge with bail set at $750,000.

Murder is a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Bookman is related to Robertson by marriage, but she said she had no idea why he would shoot Love.

Mary Williams, Love's mother, said he was a "quiet guy, a worker." She said her son didn't threaten Bookman. "He died with his knife in his pocket and his hat on his head."

Williams said her son invited her to the house on Valley Hill Road a week ago Thursday.

"We had a beautiful Thanksgiving," she said.