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7-Month-Old Pa. Baby Dies of Fentanyl Poisoning Amid Rapid Rise in Children’s Deaths from Drug Exposure

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Daniel Moore

Updated on February 21, 2026

A post-mortem confirmed that 8-month-old Zhuri Bogle died of “intense fentanyl harmfulness,” on Jan. 14 specialists say

Experts in Pennsylvania this week reported that fentanyl harming killed a 7-month-old child, proceeding with a disturbing expansion in manufactured narcotic passings among youngsters.

Cops and paramedics were called to a home in Penn Slopes — a Pittsburgh suburb — around 6:45 a.m. on Jan. 14, where they found Zhuri Bogle lethargic, as indicated by a public statement from Allegheny Region police. At the point when specialists on call showed up, the newborn child’s dad, as per authorities, was doing mouth to mouth. The young lady was articulated dead not long after. Examiners discovered that the child had been under the watchful eye of her grandma and grandma’s companion since the past night, as per the delivery.

“Zhuri was at that point put to sleep when her folks got back on the night of January thirteenth,” specialists said.

Around two months after the fact, a post-mortem performed by the Allegheny Area Clinical Inspector decided the newborn child died of “intense fentanyl poisonousness,” as per the delivery.

Allegheny Province police said the division is working with the Allegheny Region Head prosecutor’s Office on potential charges. Authorities have not referenced who they could arraign for the situation. Following the baby’s demise, a GoFundMe crusade was sent off to assist with supporting her folks, Mercedes Williams and Barrington Bogle Jr.

“This was an entirely surprising and crushing event that eternity changed the existences of Zhuri’s folks and other friends and family,” the page states.

7-Month-Old Pa. Baby Dies of Fentanyl Poisoning Amid Rapid Rise in Children’s Deaths from Drug Exposure

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“To cover a friend or family member is certainly not a simple errand; it is a strain intellectually, inwardly, and monetarily,” the pledge drive proceeded. Zhuri’s burial service was hung on Feb. 7 at Coston Burial service Homes in Pittsburgh, as per her tribute. One of the accolades posted on the page portrayed the young lady as “lovely, energetic and lively.”

Only two days before child’s demise, an examination by Families Against Fentanyl, a non-benefit association, tracked down that fentanyl passings among kids 14 and under are expanding at a quicker rate than those of some other age bunch in the U.S., as first revealed by the New York Post.

As per the FAF official statement, scientists pulled information from the Middle for Infectious prevention on engineered narcotic (fentanyl) harming fatalities.

The discoveries uncovered that public fentanyl passings multiplied in the a long time from 2019 to 2021. “Be that as it may, in similar period, passings among newborn children to 1 year olds quadrupled, passings among 1 to long term olds dramatically multiplied, and passings among 5 to long term olds almost quadrupled,” the delivery states.

On Tuesday, Individuals provided details regarding the January passing of 2-year-old Excursion Sharp of Baltimore, Md., which was governed a murder brought about by fentanyl inebriation.

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