Wichita man, previously sentenced in killing, arrested for murder in Denny’s killing
A 43-year-old Wichita man, previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery, was arrested Thursday in connection with a killing last month outside a Denny’s in southeast Wichita, records show.
Marshall Green Jr. was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with the killing of 45-year-old Monzell Brocks. Around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 10, police responded to a shooting at Denny’s, 4024 E. Harry, and found Brocks, who had been shot. He was taken to a Wichita hospital where he died.
Brocks had been working at Denny’s when the shooting occurred.
Wichita police spokesman Officer Charley Davidson said before the shooting, Brocks had sat and talked with a table of “several males and females” who had arrived at the restaurant sometime overnight.
“As the group began to leave, Brocks went outside as well and shots were fired striking him and causing his fatal injuries,” Davidson said in an emailed news release. “Detectives have recovered illegal drugs, two handguns, and shell casings during their investigation, and detectives are still working to learn all the details of what occurred.”
Police did not believe the shooting was random.
Green was arrested Thursday in the 3000 block of West 27th street South, near Chase Street, by a special unit in the Wichita Police Department that was looking for him in connection to the killing, according to police spokesperson Trevor Macy.
Green was sentenced in an aggravated robbery in 1997 and voluntary manslaughter in 2003, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records. Both incidents occurred in Sedgwick County. He was released from prison in 2012. He has 20 disciplinary reports from his time in Kansas prisons, records show.
The 2003 voluntary manslaughter conviction came for Green’s involvement in the death of O.T. Ruffin outside a bar at Harry and Oliver. A 2003 article in The Wichita Eagle called the death a “mob beating” that lead to five people being charged. Green faced a second-degree murder charge but a jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter instead.
“Police said the deadly fight erupted after Green’s sister, Latrina Green, complained that Ruffin sloshed a drink on her on the dance floor,” the article says.
