David Green Jr., a 30-year-old Black man, was shot while sitting in his pickup truck near the intersection of Spring and Willow streets in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on November 3, 2018. He was taken to Berkshire Medical Center and died a few days later; the death was ruled a homicide.

Investigators from the Pittsfield Police Department, State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office, and the Berkshire County Sheriff’s Department developed leads that pointed to a nonlocal suspect. Authorities say witness statements, video surveillance, and mobile phone tracking identified 40-year-old Lance Burke of the Bronx, New York, as the person who traveled to Pittsfield, shot Green in the neck, and returned to New York. Investigators described the killing as related to a dating dispute and said Burke had no direct connection to Green or to Pittsfield.

A warrant was executed in the Bronx on November 20, 2018, and Burke was arrested there; he was charged with first-degree murder, carrying a firearm without a license, and carrying a loaded firearm, and a Berkshire County grand jury indicted him in March 2019. Anyone with information about David Green Jr., his movements that morning, or the intersection of Spring and Willow streets is asked to come forward.