Deep Thoughts: Youth pastor Joshua Drucker sentenced to death

Friday, October 28, 2011

Youth pastor Joshua Drucker sentenced to death

I don’t make this stuff up. Ex-youth pastor Joshua Drucker was sentenced to death for the murder of Andrew Robertson and Lora Nikolova. It’s a sordid affair and drugs played a big part of the story. I must ask, would Jesus pop a cap in a defenseless woman?

Prosecutors said Drucker went to Robertson's house near Marietta on April 5, 2004, under the pretense of visiting him. He chatted with Robertson and Nikolova, and then shot Robertson when he stood to fetch some marijuana in the kitchen. Drucker turned the gun on Nikolova after she began hitting him and screaming, "You killed him!"

Source: Former youth pastor found guilty of murdering 2 friends

Drucker was the youth pastor at his father’s Global Outreach Church in Stockbridge.

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LEE · 698 weeks ago

I THINK JOSH NEEDS TO COME HOME HE SHOULD BE WITH HIS FAMILY HE DID NOT KILL THE GIRL IN THE FIRST PLACE JOSH GOT SO UP SET WHEN THAT ANDREW GIVE HIS SISTER DRUGS AND HELD A GUN TO HER HEAD AND MAID HER TAKE THE DRUGS AFTER SHE LOST HER BABY BOY SHE WAS GOING TO BREAK UP WITH HIM AND HE STOPPED THAT HE GIVE HER THE DRUGS CALLED JOSH AND JOSH LOST IT I THINK JOSH NEEDS TO BE HOME

5 replies · active 640 weeks ago

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angel · 669 weeks ago

no he did not he did kill andrew but not the girl and the only reason andrew got killed is he give amanda drugs she was going to break up with andrew and get her life together but that low life andrew stopped that now she has to have people take care of her 24/7 if ya dont no what really happen then keep your thoughts to yo self !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 reply · active 632 weeks ago

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skytzo · 669 weeks ago

look you stupid fuckers josh didnt kill the girljosh is takin blame for it just so the girl didnt have to go prison josh is a good person and always will be. i have known josh since i was a little kid so you need to watch talkin about josh. yall dont kno anything about josh so you need to watch what you say bout him. my point is joshs girlfriend killd the girl and josh killed andrew for the right reason. so if you dont like what i say then comment back wit your smartass attitudes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 replies · active 465 weeks ago

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John · 668 weeks ago

I've known Josh since middle school. He is just a man and we all have it in us to do awful things. He killed Andrew for what he did to Amanda, supplying her with the drugs that caused her OD and because he was high and in a rage turned the gun on Lora when she charged at him and fired. He fired a 2nd shot to her head to silence her. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.

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angel · 668 weeks ago

yeah he did shoot andrew but he did not shoot the girl he took the blame for it all he did not want her to go to jail and that would have not happen if andrew would have not give amanda drugs she wanted to break up with him and he did not want to let her go josh got the call from andrew he told josh she was dead and josh was very close to amanda what would you do if you had a sister and some body did to her what andrew did you would do the same thing i hope josh getts out he has been in there and paid for what he did

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skytzo · 668 weeks ago

josh will come home and be with his family one day and all you damn idiots will see exactly who killed the girl and it wasnt josh. so for the guy that says he needs to spend the rest of his life in prison. FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i would love for you to try to sit in prison for doin the right thing.......you best believe if i had a sister and somebody forced her to take drugs i would do the same thing......so try to sit and think in that stupid little head of yours what you would do if somebody did that to your sister

2 replies · active 465 weeks ago

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Alski · 658 weeks ago

let the hypocrite pastor go to where he belongs - hell!

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Ray · 658 weeks ago

Maybe Josh did not kill Lora. Josh still took a life, so he SHOULD BE in prison. I understand how traumatizing it was for him to see his sister in that condition. But it was not his right to kill Andrew even if he had proof that Andrew was somehow responsible for Amanda's OD (which he does not as it was clear that both Josh and Amanda struggled with their own "demons"/grief/dependencies before Andrew came into the picture).
When justice on earth does not prevail, God tells us "Vegeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay..." Vengeance did not belong to Josh. As a Christian, I feel sorry for Andrew, who was neither given a proper Christian witness from his friends or time to set things right before his death, and Josh is ultimately responsible for taking both of those opportunities from Andrew. If Josh is a believer, he had a responsibility to behave and respond in a way that was different from Andrew. He did not do that. In fact, he did something much, much worse. The only good thing that comes from this kind of tragedy is knowing that, in spite of our failures, God is a redeeming God.

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TRB · 658 weeks ago

He deserves to be in prison and he is....period! It doesn't matter if it was a murder for revenge for his sister of for drugs or money or anything else...he committed murder and is where he belongs. As for his girlfriend who supposedly shot the girl......that's not what the evidence proved or what they said and until someone proves otherwise it is to be assumed the appropriate actions were taken on both accounts. You can be a good person and kill....it is possible. It is possible to love God and people and your family and still be so caught up in drugs and a downward spiral that you lose touch with reality and snap. But....he must be the consequences and he is. If he deserves redemption, God will grant that one day.

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Lucifer's handyman · 656 weeks ago

So, I was friends with both, Lora and Andrew. I am sad I will not see Josh die a horrible death like Lora did. I am sad that so much energy has been spent on a piece of gum on the bottom of God's sneakers. The fact that Josh Drucker takes a breath in the same world that my friends suffering families do, disgusts me. He will be catered to and cared for until his death (that can't be soon enough). What a failure of our society to take a worthless piece of shit and lock him away for his own protection. Do us a favor let him go. I would love to hear what he has to say in his final "sermon". How do I support his release? Can I write letters or call Senators? Perhaps with enough signatures he could get a pardon from the President. How do I help? Surely our world would be a better place with more public access to such a prophet!! Oh, and you supporters of such a man...Are you serious?

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kelly · 643 weeks ago

god is a good god and god knows that josh shot that sorry trash andrew he did not shoot the girl she was in the wrong place andrew was a bad guy there was no good in him at all he give amanda drugs and made her od that was very wrong in every way man josh has paid for what he did but he needs to be out and free if that was your sister you would do the same thing josh has turned his life around and god is rite there with him every day every min god loves josh very much and always will if he dont get out and has to die in there he will be in heaven were god will be josh is a good guy yeah he did one thang wrong wow we all have done some kind of sin and ask god to for give us and he will and he has forgivin josh .........

2 replies · active 465 weeks ago

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lynn · 640 weeks ago

I find these post funny. No one can make you take drugs, or take a life. You do these things because you want to , and are weak. I think if this had been a black person, or a spanish person, the conversation would be quite different. All of you would push for death. We all have it in us to do the right thing, or the wrong thing. He is where he belongs, by US standards, but he has to atone for what he did to a higher power, and we will not be the judge or jury.

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robyn · 640 weeks ago

My belief is that although Josh was harboring resentment for his sister Amanda, against Andrew, but that this was just a secondary motivation, or maybe even a whitewash for what he really had planned. Josh had reconciled with Andrew after what happened to his sister Amanda and was still hanging out with him. Josh and his girlfriend were high when they went to Andrew's and after the heinous act of murdering both Andrew and Lora, they robbed Andrew and went partying with Andrew's credit cards and money. Revenge murders do not usually rob their targets, as a rule. I've been exposed to persons with drug habits and when they are out of their drug of choice, they will do anything to get more. Even to rationalize a senseless and sinful crime against those closest to them. Drugs are evil and use of and want of them make people do things they may not have normally done. God bless everyone involved and I pray that God has mercy on us all.

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ally · 640 weeks ago

o yeah ok that sob had a gun to amanda head and mad here take the drugs you have no idea what you are talkin about at all josh was so up set cause his sister was hurt she was on life support cause of that low life she had already lost her baby that was bad in its self she was tryin to break up with him and yes he put the gun to her head and made her take the stuff josh is a good guy a number one guy he loves his sister and his family and as for the girl no josh did not kill her he did take the blame i would not have but to keep the other person out of trouble he said he did but god is on his side all the way if he dont get out and has to be put to death o he will be in heaven god has already forgive him so u need to if any one of you dont that will be you and god but he will be in heaven

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Sunny · 640 weeks ago

Amanda did it to herself! Josh is wrong for what he did! Only can judge all three of them!!

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Sunny · 640 weeks ago

Only God can Judge them all!!!

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Michelle · 640 weeks ago

Whatever happened to Melissa "Missy"? Was she tried or what? Also, I just watched 'I Killed My BFF' and this was the featured story. Was that the real Melissa giving a first hand account on the show?

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anonimo · 597 weeks ago

Me parece que la pena de muerte es algo totalmente inhumano y no le pueden dar la pena de muerte por matar a dos personas. La sobredosis de Amanda fue un accidente y ella misma se lo iso.

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