Josh Kruger and others who left the world too soon left behind a blueprint for those of us who want to continue their mission.
From left to right: Charnice Milton, 27, Josh Kruger, 39, and Pava LaPere, 26, were killed killed while building a legacy of goodness.I didn’t know Pava LaPere, who was found dead at her Baltimore apartment building last week. And while I kept up with his work, I can’t say I knew Josh Kruger very well, either. Kruger, 39, was fatally shot in his Point Breeze home.
Kruger, who worked for the city for five years before returning to freelance journalism, wasn’t just from Philadelphia. He wasPhiladelphia. As a colleague who knew him better recently remarked, so many of the issues that Philadelphia struggles with were some of the very issues that impacted Kruger’s life.
But above all, what I saw, even from afar, was someone who tried to be decent, and decency is a lot rarer than one might think. , a 27-year-old journalist who was killed in 2015 in Washington, D.C., after covering a neighborhood meeting for a Capitol Hill paper called the Hill Rag. According to police, Milton was shot in a neighborhood that had seen an increase in homicides that year.
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