Maurice Green. Courtesy: Knox County Jail
An arrest has been made and the victim identified in an early Wednesday shooting that killed a Burlington man.
28 year old Matthew Quinton Banks was shot multiple times at a house at 1204 Jefferson Street at around 1:23am yesterday Morning.
Arrested and charged with first-degree murder is 43 year old Maurice Green, also of Burlington. Green was arrested after fleeing to Galesburg, Illinois. He remains in the Knox County Jail awaiting extridition to Iowa.
The Hawk Eye reports that several people close to the investigation say that the shooting occured over a dice game.
The murder is the second to occur in Burlington this year.
