The deeper I push for answers in my son Shawn’s death at Pittsburgh Job Corps, the clearer the pattern becomes: anyone who gets close to helping disappears, and my voice keeps getting quietly blocked online.
📅 Timeline of Ethan Navarre’s Sudden Exit
May 30, 2024 – First contact with Ethan Navarre, staffer for Senator Chris Van Hollen. He thanked me for speaking with him and offered to assist after I spoke with my attorneys.
June 6, 2024 – Ethan asked about my last communication with Job Corps.
June 9, 2024 – He offered to request Job Corps’ official assessment of what happened to my son, noting they might try to defer to police but he’d still push for it.
June 10, 2024 – He confirmed he’d follow up.
Following this – He connected me with the Department of Justice’s Job Corps Division, who said they were reviewing the case.
July 27, 2024 – Out of nowhere, I receive an email saying Ethan is no longer with Senator Van Hollen’s office, replaced by a generic intake message.
We had real movement — and then silence.
📵 The Newsbreak Suppression
I’ve made 3 petition-related videos that gained hundreds of views and sparked conversations with concerned citizens.
Now, any new video cannot be uploaded pertainingthe petition. I keep getting a “retry” error, while other videos upload just fine.
I emailed Newsbreak on August 7 about the issue. They responded the next day ignoring my technical issue while addressing my question about them officialy publishing my petition on their platform as a news story. When they addressed it, they told me to email their “clips” department. I did — and haven’t heard back since.
This is part of the bigger pattern:
X (Twitter) shadowbans, tag restrictions and retry upload.
TikTok slow uploading, less views and shadowbanned videos.
Now Newsbreak “technical errors while uploading.”
It’s the same effect — keep my story from gaining traction while those responsible wait for the noise to die down.
🕵🏽 Who Connects All This?
If this was just a Pittsburgh Job Corps cover-up, why do online platforms across multiple companies quietly block and stall me?
If this was just local police or the Medical Examiner, why did a DOJ division get involved — and then progress stopped when my Senate contact vanished?
Who decides which stories are allowed to spread and which ones are quietly smothered?
And why do tragedies at Job Corps campuses get staged sympathy and shutdown announcements… only for those shutdowns to never happen — especially in the winter months when more deaths occur?
To them, our children aren’t precious lives. They’re expendable units in a federal funding pipeline. Disadvantaged youth are recruited, housed in unsafe conditions, and when tragedy strikes, it’s covered up, spun, or ignored. They treat them like manufactured meat at a fast-food chain — not sons, daughters, or loved ones.
💥 We need answers. We need accountability.
If they can silence me, they can silence anyone — and that’s how these deaths keep happening.
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If you want to fight actively with me, go to:
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Allegheny Medical Examiner’s Office
Ball Funeral Home
Allegheny Police Department
…and leave reviews asking who will take responsibility for the death of Shawn Fortune.
Make Bob Gottschalk, Director of Pittsburgh Job Corps, answer for the neglect that cost my son his life.
Let’s go warriors — keep fighting!
For those who dont like to read, video update