Gwinnett County police Wednesday morning arrested a man for Tuesday's shooting near Lilburn that left a man dead and a woman wounded.

The shooting happened shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the 2000 block of Pucketts Drive, in a neighborhood off U.S. 78.

Officers responding to a "shots fired" call found Demarcus Collins, 29 and Monica Tamez, 32 with gunshot wounds,, Gwinnett police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said.

Ritter said both were taken to Gwinnett Medical Center, where Collins later died. Ritter said Wednesday that Tamez is expected to survive her injuries.

Wednesday morning, police arrested Jamell Richmond, 40, of Lilburn and charged him with one count of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

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