Robert Edmond Davis, photo via Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News.
As we have previously reported, Robert Davis, 20, the killer of Josh Kruger, was expected to plead guilty in exchange for a 15-to-30-year prison sentence. Yesterday, he did just that:
Man sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for murder of Josh Kruger
Robert Davis, 20, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and related offenses, and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison.
by Robert Moran | Monday, June 10, 2024 | 8:55 PM EDT
A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the October fatal shooting of local journalist and advocate Josh Kruger, court records show.
The negotiated guilty plea for third-degree murder and related offenses was expected from Robert Davis, who killed the 39-year-old Kruger on Oct. 2.
Police said Davis entered Kruger’s Point Breeze home in the middle of the night and shot him multiple times before fleeing. Kruger was able to get outside and collapsed on the sidewalk. He was transported by police to the hospital, where he died.
Davis’s guilty plea Monday before Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Barbara A. McDermott also included aggravated assault and illegal gun possession for firing a gun at someone on a SEPTA platform in late September.
Reporter Robert Moran did note, further down, that Mr Davis family claimed that the sexual relationship between Messrs Kruger and Davis began when Mr Davis was just 15-years-old — in Pennsylvania, the age of consent is 16 — and that the victim had gotten his eventual killer hooked on methamphetamines and often provided him with drugs. They claimed that Mr Kruger was attempting to blackmail his victim.
But, can you guess what Mr Moran did not include? In neither his article, nor anyplace else in the Inquirer which I could find, did the newspaper report that Damica Davis, Mr Davis mother, wants all of the evidence in the case, including the evidence collected about the victim, released.
Instead of providing us with the evidence, they’d rather just lock my son up for 15 to 30 years and close the case, and not even do any kind of investigation on this man and his actions and what part he played, what role he played. I don’t want the evidence in this man’s phone to just be swept under the rug.
Mr Kruger would have been 34-to-36-years old when his sexual relationship with his eventual killer began, if the family’s claims are correct, and even if the 15-year-old claim is not accurate, even if Mr Davis was of legal age, Mr Kruger was still a chickenhawk, homosexual slang for older males who prefer much younger males for sexual partners. One wonders: was young Mr Davis his only young victim?
Mr Moran concluded:
Kruger was well-known locally as a freelance journalist and advocate for the LGBTQ community, and people experiencing addiction and homelessness. He worked for the city, including the Office of Homeless Services, for five years.
His death shocked many in the Philadelphia area who knew and supported his work.
Which tells you all you need to know: Mr Kruger was personally popular at the Inquirer specifically, and the Democratic establishment in general in the City of Brotherly Love. I’m not quite certain how getting someone addicted to drugs is defined as lifting them up, but I will admit to not thinking like a Democrat.
Mrs Davis is, of course, very supportive of her son, and cannot be regarded as anything other than a special pleader in this case. Nevertheless, since the allegations against Mr Kruger were made, one thing I have not seen are any stories claiming that the family’s allegations are false. The initial newspaper report on the murder, before the allegations against Mr Kruger by the killer’s family were made public, noted that the police found methamphetamine in the victim’s home, which is at the very least evidence that part of the allegations are true.
The rest? That stuff is buried in the Philadelphia Police Department’s and District Attorney’s Office’s files on the case, and that is what Mrs Davis wants made public. Was Mr Kruger a serial predator, or was Mr Davis his only young victim? If Mr Kruger was not just using drugs, but providing them to other people, do the police of DAO have evidence of that? If Mr Kruger was selling drugs or seducing younger boys, how many people, how many friends and acquaintances knew about or strongly suspected that? Even the Inky reported:
With Davis expected to admit his guilt, many of the details behind the crime and Davis’ relationship with Kruger may never be publicly revealed in court.
If it looks like a coverup, and smells like a coverup, . . . .
Homosexual men are known for, among other things, an unusual proclivity for group orgies. It is quite likely that if Mr. Kruger had other victims, then he also had accomplices. The decadent and depraved wokeists cannot plausibly claim to be concerned with propriety, so it is reasonable to conclude that this is about protecting living wrongdoers from material consequences, not the reputation of the dead.