Kruger, 39, was killed Monday after police say someone entered his home just before 1:30 a.m. and shot him multiple times at the base of his stairs.
The shooter fled, police said, and Kruger ran outside seeking help. Officers found him collapsed on the sidewalk on the 2300 block of Watkins Street, and rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he died a short time later.
Kruger, who worked for the city for five years before returning to freelance journalism, had posted about a number of troubling incidents at his home in recent months. In August, someone threw a “glass egg” through his home window, he wrote on Facebook. And in April, he posted that a man he’d previously had a relationship with broke into his home.
Police sources said Kruger had told friends that he continued to have issues with the man, who struggled with a meth addiction and continued to show up at his house. “Josh cared deeply about our city and its residents, which was evident both in his public service and in his writing,” Mayor Jim Kenney said. “His intelligence, creativity, passion, and wit shone bright in everything that he did — and his light was dimmed much too soon.”
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