{"id":1451582,"date":"2022-04-23T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451582"},"modified":"2022-04-23T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T21:06:29","slug":"philadelphia-toddler-dead-after-his-father-used-him-as-a-human-shield-during-drug-deal-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philadelphia-toddler-dead-after-his-father-used-him-as-a-human-shield-during-drug-deal-gone-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Toddler Dead After His Father Used Him As a Human Shield During Drug Deal Gone Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphiladelphia-toddler-dead-after-his-father-used-him-as-a-human-shield-during-drug-deal-gone-bad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A three year old toddler in Philadelphia has died from injuries sustained after his father used him as a human shield when he was just 11 months old in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Yaseem Jenkins, 3, was shot four times \u2014 in the head, chest and lower body.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Nafes Monroe, had Jenkins with him when he attempted to purchase drugs using counterfeit money.<\/p>\n<p>A confrontation ensued with the dealer, Francisco Ortiz, who allegedly began shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-extras trending\"> <strong>TRENDING:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2022\/04\/newsmax-host-greg-kelly-kevin-mccarthy-swamp-snake-dont-like-moment-crisis-wet-pants-video\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">Newsmax Host Greg Kelly: &#8220;Kevin McCarthy Is a Swamp Snake and We Don&#8217;t Like Him &#8211; In a Moment of Crisis He Wet His Pants&#8221; (VIDEO)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Monroe used his own baby to shield himself as the shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was using counterfeit money to purchase drugs, knowing that counterfeit money is something that is very upsetting to drug dealers, and when they find out that they\u2019re being burned with counterfeit money, they act violently. And this was not the first instance of Mr. Monroe using counterfeit money,\u201d said Anthony Voci, from the district attorney\u2019s office, in his 2019 report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our belief and our investigation has led us to believe that he intentionally had his child with him when he was making such types of purchases with the idea or belief that if someone saw that he had a child in the car they would not fire upon him,\u201d Voci added. \u201cA human shield is probably the term that I would use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a press conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three year old toddler in Philadelphia has died from injuries sustained after his father used him as a human shield when he was just 11 months old in 2019.<br \/>\nYaseem Jenkins, 3, was shot four times \u2014 in the head, chest and lower body.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Nafes Monroe, had Jenkins with him when he attempted to purchase drugs using counterfeit money.<br \/>\nA confrontation ensued with the dealer, Francisco Ortiz, who allegedly began shooting.<\/p>\n<p>TRENDING: Newsmax Host Greg Kelly: &#8220;Kevin McCarthy Is a Swamp Snake and We Don&#8217;t Like Him &#8211; In a Moment of Crisis He Wet His Pants&#8221; (VIDEO)<\/p>\n<p>Monroe used his own baby to shield himself as the shots were fired.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was using counterfeit money to purchase drugs, knowing that counterfeit money is something that is very upsetting to drug dealers, and when they find out that they\u2019re being burned with counterfeit money, they act violently. And this was not the first instance of Mr. Monroe using counterfeit money,\u201d said Anthony Voci, from the district attorney\u2019s office, in his 2019 report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our belief and our investigation has led us to believe that he intentionally had his child with him when he was making such types of purchases with the idea or belief that if someone saw that he had a child in the car they would not fire upon him,\u201d Voci added. \u201cA human shield is probably the term that I would use.\u201d<br \/>\nPhiladelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a press conference that an autopsy has not yet been conducted, but that they believe the death was likely due to the injuries sustained during the shooting.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have reason to believe the cause of death is his original injury from the shooting,\u201d Krasner said.<br \/>\nFollowing the original incident, Monroe was arrested and charged with recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a report from CBS Philadelphia. Ortiz was charged with attempted murder.<br \/>\n\u201cOrtiz is also connected to the 2019 deadly shooting of 2-year-old Nikolette Rivera. Police say the gun used to kill Rivera was given to the suspects in that case by Ortiz,\u201d the CBS report noted.<\/p>\n<p>If it is concluded that Jenkins\u2019 death was the result of the shooting, both men could face additional charges \u2014 including murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}