{"id":254752,"date":"2026-07-29T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:00:33","slug":"pittsburgh-man-sentenced-for-5-day-old-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254752\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man sentenced for 5-day-old baby\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man was sentenced for his role in the death of his own child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Court documents reveal that Shawn Martin, 32, was sentenced to 11 to 28 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges of murder in the third degree and endangering the welfare of children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say back in December 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/all-i-wanted-was-my-baby-mother-murdered-5-day-old-baby-boy-speaks-exclusively-channel-11\/UMLRDXMMXBBOPAMAHRMRRJJOPY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/all-i-wanted-was-my-baby-mother-murdered-5-day-old-baby-boy-speaks-exclusively-channel-11\/UMLRDXMMXBBOPAMAHRMRRJJOPY\/\">Martin killed his 5-day-old son<\/a>, Jah\u2019Shawn, in their Northview Heights home while the boy\u2019s mother was in the hospital, recovering from a blood infection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators say the baby died from several powerful blows to the back of his head. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man was sentenced for his role in the death of his own child. Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[100970,108587,6411,73,108589,108588,75,74,73455,108586],"class_list":["post-254752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baby-death","tag-jahshawn-martin","tag-northview-heights","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-5-day-old-baby-death","tag-pittsburgh-5-day-old-baby-killed","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shawn-martin","tag-shawn-martin-sentenced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}