Robert Davis, the 19-year-old accused of killing Josh Kruger, has additionally been charged with making an attempt to shoot somebody at a SEPTA station in September.
Davis was arrested final week and charged with homicide after police stated he entered the house of Kruger, 39, earlier this month and shot him 3 times, killing him.
Courtroom data present he now faces a string of extra costs, together with aggravated assault and unlawful gun possession, stemming from a capturing at SEPTA’s Tasker-Morris station on Sept. 25 — simply days earlier than he allegedly killed Kruger.
In response to the affidavit of possible trigger for his arrest, Davis approached a person from behind on the platform round 5 a.m. and “tried to succeed in round him.” When the person tried to struggle again, the report says, Davis pulled a gun from his waistband and fired it as soon as within the man’s course. Nobody was struck, and Davis fled the station, the affidavit stated.
A detective with SEPTA Transit Police recovered surveillance video exhibiting that Davis fled west on Tasker Avenue, in keeping with the affidavit. As he walked by means of the South Philadelphia neighborhood, a number of movies appeared to point out him “at occasions making an attempt to interrupt into automobiles and homes,” in keeping with the report.
He was additionally carrying a blue duffle bag, the affidavit stated. Detectives recovered it the following day amongst a pile of trash, and inside was a pc monitor, arduous drive, keyboard, and a damaged hover board, the doc stated. Police additionally recovered fingerprints from one of many automobiles he allegedly tried to interrupt into, but it surely’s unclear whether or not they had been a match to Davis.
Transit detectives didn’t make the connection to Davis till Oct. 6, when Philadelphia Police issued a warrant for his arrest and shared a photograph of him that “strongly resembled” the person who fired the gun on the platform, the data say. SEPTA police then confirmed that picture to the sufferer from the station, and he recognized Davis as his attacker.
The brand new costs add additional complexities to Davis’ background and story in relation to Kruger’s killing.
Davis’ mom and older brother have stated Davis and Kruger had been in a intercourse and drug-fueled relationship since Davis was simply 15. The household has stated Davis instructed them Kruger had been making an attempt to blackmail him with sexually specific movies of him earlier than police say Davis killed him. His mom has stated that whereas she doesn’t condone the violence, she believes her son is a sufferer, too.
In addition they stated Davis was hooked on medicine, together with meth, which exacerbated his psychological well being and behavioral troubles through the years. He had grown more and more erratic, and infrequently sneaked out of the home in the midst of the night time, they stated.
Davis’ household couldn’t instantly be reached for remark Monday.
The courtroom data additionally provided new particulars within the killing of Kruger and the way police tied Davis to the scene.
In response to the data, police initially believed a distinct man who struggled with a meth dependancy — and who visited Kruger’s home a number of hours earlier than the homicide — had killed him. However after detectives examined Kruger’s cellphone, they discovered textual content messages and voicemails that led them to Davis.
Police recovered a voicemail on Kruger’s cellphone that was recorded simply three minutes earlier than he was killed. Within the recording, police might hear an individual they consider to be Kruger arguing with somebody at his entrance door. The particular person instructed Kruger he left his RAW rolling papers inside and wanted to get them, and Kruger angrily replied that he was asleep and instructed the particular person to “get out of right here,” in keeping with the data.
“I’m uninterested in you being imply to me,” Kruger might be heard saying.
Detectives stated the cellphone quantity that left the voicemail matches a quantity that belongs to Davis. A witness on the block additionally instructed police Davis matched the particular person they noticed on the scene.
The data say textual content messages between Kruger and Davis additionally advised Davis had carried out work on Kruger’s basement earlier than, and had damaged his window and stolen a number of weapons from him up to now — incidents that had not been reported to police. And content material on the cellphone additionally indicated the 2 had been in an intimate relationship, the data say.
When police searched Davis’ bed room in his South Philadelphia dwelling, they discovered a black and silver handgun, in keeping with the paperwork. Contained in the gun’s chamber had been a number of brass-colored .40 caliber rounds that police stated matched the dimensions and magnificence of cartridge casings discovered on the scene.
The Defender Affiliation, which is representing Davis, declined to remark. He’s being held with out bail on the metropolis’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.
