Friends, supporters, and truth-seekers —

 

It’s time we bring the energy back up. My son, Shawn Lee Fortune, should still be alive today. He should be here celebrating his 22nd birthday, planning his future, laughing with his sister, building his legacy. Instead, I am left fighting a system that is designed to bury the truth.

 

🧩 The Pattern We Can’t Ignore

 

Across Pennsylvania and across this nation, our youth are dying under suspicious circumstances. The headlines keep coming:

 

Black youth “overdosing” on fentanyl across the United States, some whose parents say that they dont use drugs at all. Like Devin, the videographer who died at a car meet in Atlanta. The incident was reported at Fentanyl overdose but toxicology later found horse tranquilizer in his system.

 

Young people found hanging from trees, written off as suicide like Demartravion Trey Reed.

 

Everywhere we look, young lives are being cut short and the official stories are meant to silence families, not protect them.

 

Shawn’s death fits the same disturbing mold. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s report claims he died of “acute fentanyl intoxication” — but inside the very pages of that report is hearsay: a claim that a “roommate gave him pills.” This isn’t science. This isn’t justice. This is planting a story to shift the blame.

 

⚠️ The Cover Narrative

 

By putting that hearsay in the autopsy, they’ve now forced me to prove where my son supposedly got a pill from — an impossible burden when:

 

The scene wasn’t properly secured.

 

His phone is still being withheld by authorities.

 

No one questioned staff or directors under oath.

 

Critical surveillance and witness statements remain uncollected.

 

They want me to sue a ghost, not the system. They want me to chase shadows while Job Corps, the medical examiner’s office, and the institutions responsible wash their hands clean.

 

🔥 Why This Matters for ALL of Us

 

This is bigger than Shawn. This is about how systems treat vulnerable youth — especially young Black men — as disposable. Institutions fail them, then cover their tracks with easy labels: “drug overdose,” “accident,” “suicide.”

 

If we don’t push back, this will continue to happen:

 

More parents silenced.

 

More children erased.

 

More institutions free from accountability.

 

We can’t let that stand.

 

✊🏾 The Power of the People

 

Remember: people united can move mountains. Look how quickly the nation rallied to defend freedom of speech against corporate giants like Disney or when voices together brought Jimmy Fallon to account. If we can do that in a matter of days for entertainment, we can do it for human rights, civil rights, and justice for Shawn.

 

This fight is about our collective future. It’s about forcing institutions to answer for their negligence. It’s about making sure no other mother has to fight this lonely, uphill battle when her child dies in “their care.”

 

🚨 What You Can Do Right Now

 

Sign & Share this petition far and wide.

 

Say His Name: Shawn Lee Fortune. Keep his story alive.

 

Use Your Platform: Post, share, stitch, talk about it in your communities.

 

Prepare for Action: I may have to refocus my GoFundMe on legal fees — because that’s how steep this fight is. Your support there will go directly to keeping this case alive in court.

 

⚖️ We’re not done. We are gathering evidence, we are speaking truth, and we are preparing for the next steps.

 

Together, we can cut through the lies. Together, we can hold institutions accountable.

 

This is for Shawn. This is for every youth who never got justice. This is for the future they’re trying to steal.

 

Sign. Share. Demand Justice.