{"id":632496,"date":"2026-04-27T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:10:10","slug":"menace-ii-society-actor-samuel-monroe-jr-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632496\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’ Actor Samuel Monroe Jr. on Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Menace II Society’ Actor
\n Samuel Monroe Jr. Fighting For His Life in Hospital<\/p>\n

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\n April 27, 2026
\n 9:26 AM PDT
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\n April 27, 2026
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Samuel Monroe Jr., best known for his work in the ’90s classic film “Menace II Society,” has been hospitalized … and the situation is serious.<\/p>\n

Family tells TMZ … the actor is on life support in a SoCal hospital for the past three days — and he’s battling meningitis. As for the prognosis, we’re told it’s unclear, and the family is getting daily updates.<\/p>\n

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Samuel’s mother posted about the situation on Facebook<\/a>, saying in part … “God don\u2019t make no mistakes, but he is gracious, and I am humbly asking for his mercy and grace for Sam. I love you, son, to the moon and back 100 times.”<\/p>\n

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The 52-year-old actor has appeared in a slew of films and TV shows, including “Tales from the Hood,” “Set It Off,” “The Players Club,” “Out All Night” and “NYPD Blue.” Samuel also appeared in “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood,” the Wayans Brothers’ spoof of 1990s L.A.-based crime dramas.<\/p>\n

Get well soon, Samuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’ Actor Samuel Monroe Jr. Fighting For His Life in Hospital Published April 27, 2026 9:26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-632496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}