Burke is charged with shooting David Green Jr. of Pittsfield in the neck while Green sat in a pickup truck near Spring and Willow streets in Pittsfield.
At home and on his morning off on September 11th 2001 he reported to his precinct in East Harlem and then onto the World Trade Center. From September 11th, 2001 until January of 2002 he worked at the World Trade Center site.
Berkshire Human Rights speaker Tracie Keesee has devoted her long career in policing to strengthening better ties between the police and minority communities.
During his career he was cited numerous times for conspicuous duties and once for personal bravery in which he slid on a life-saving rope down the rear of a burning tenement to search for trapped occupants.
