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Samuel Monroe Jr. — Name Gematria & Death Date Numerology

Born November 28, 1973 · Died August 27, 2026 · Age 52 · Complications of meningitis (after prolonged hospitalization) · Los Angeles, California, United States

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Who Samuel Monroe Jr. was

Samuel Monroe Jr. (also known as Caffamilliano) was an American actor and a familiar face of 1990s Black cinema. Born in Los Angeles on 28 November 1973, he broke through as Ilena's cousin in the Hughes Brothers' Menace II Society (1993), then appeared as Bulldog in Tales from the Hood (1995), Lorenz in F. Gary Gray's Set It Off (1996), Sam in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), and Junior in Ice Cube's The Players Club (1998), with television credits including Out All Night and NYPD Blue. In October 2024, while filming in Las Vegas, he contracted meningitis that family members later said was misdiagnosed for months; by April 2026 he was on life support in a Los Angeles hospital with MRSA pneumonia, repeated brain surgeries, seizures, and encephalopathy. His mother, Joyce Patton, announced that he died on 27 August 2026 at age 52.

Name gematria across six ciphers

Every value below is computed with the same cipher tables the GEMAFIA calculator uses, so the numbers here match what you get by typing the name into the tool. Click any number to see what else shares it.

Phrase	Ordinal	Reduction	Reverse Ordinal	Standard	Chaldean	Single Reduction
Samuel Monroe Jr	179	62	199	165	55	62
Caffamilliano	102	57	249	89	46	57
Ilenas Cousin	141	51	183	129	43	51
Lorenz	90	36	72	84	29	36
Bulldog	73	28	116	66	28	28

Numbers appearing in this profile: 28 · 29 · 36 · 43 · 46 · 51 · 55 · 57 · 62 · 66 · 72 · 73 · 84 · 89 · 90 · 102 · 129 · 165 · 179 · 199

Date numerology

Birth date life path: 5 (1+1+2+8+1+9+7+3 = 32)
Death date life path: 9 (0+8+2+7+2+0+2+6 = 27)
Birth month + day reduced: 3
Death month + day reduced: 8
Days lived (inclusive): 19,266
Age at death: 52

Research notes

SET IT OFF thread: Monroe played Lorenz in Set It Off (New Line / F. Gary Gray; U.S. release 6 November 1996) — the neighborhood robber who walks away from the opening bank job while Darnell is killed, then whose Acorn Projects apartment becomes the police stakeout that kills Stony's brother Stevie and helps catalyze the women's heist spiral. The title phrase itself is street/ritual language for initiating violence, escalation, or the moment a plan goes live — "setting it off." Pattern researchers treat the 1996 soft-disclosure title plus his 2026 death as a mirror: the actor who helped set the film's violence in motion dies as the culture is again being told something is "set off for real." Calendar stack: film year 1996 → death year 2026 is a clean 30-year span; he dies at 52 (5+2=7) on 8/27 (8+27=35→8). Other signature titles in his run — Menace II Society, Tales from the Hood, The Players Club — sit in the same 1990s death / hood-horror / street-economy register. Pattern research context, not proof of causation. Sources: Wikipedia; Fox News (Apr 2026 life-support report); TMZ family/medical updates; TheGrio / Complex death reports (27 Aug 2026); Set It Off plot / cast.

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