A child custody dispute led to a shooting Monday night that left one man dead and another arrested, according to the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office.

A 911 call about the shooting in Chestnut, an unincorporated area in the northern part of the parish, was received around 8:17 p.m. from the 800 block of Weaver Cemetery Road.

Deputies were there in 19 minutes, finding 24-year-old Dalton Edward McQuillin in the front yard with a gunshot wound to his head. McQuillin died at the scene.

"Chief of Investigations Detective Greg Dunn said the shooting was the result of an ongoing child custody matter involving the victim and the suspect’s granddaughter," reads the release.

Robert Eugene Vascocu, 66, of the 900 block of Weaver Cemetery Road, was arrested and booked into the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center on a charge of second-degree murder.

An investigation is continuing. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call detectives Darrel Winder or Victor Kay at 318-357-7830.