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A woman in Alabama was shot in the stomach and lost her pregnancy. Now, she’s facing manslaughter charges.
Confused? Here’s what happened:
Marshae Jones, a woman who was five months pregnant, got into an altercation with another woman named Ebony Jemison. At some point in the scuffle, Jemison determined that her life was in danger and shot Jones in the stomach, killing her unborn child.
Jemison last week told BuzzFeed News that she fired her gun as a “warning shot” after Jones and a group of friends attacked her over a relationship issue involving the father of Jones’ child.
In April, the Jefferson County grand jury found that Jemison acted in self-defense and that Jones, by initiating the fight, put her unborn child at risk. Jones has since been indicted for manslaughter; however, her attorney has asked for the charges to be dropped, calling it “unconscionable to prosecute a shooting victim for losing her baby as a result of an unforseeable injury.”
Prosecutors say Alabama’s new abortion law “played no role in the consideration of the Grand Jury” in Jones’ case.
WIBC’s Hammer and Nigel discussed the case in today’s edition of “Legal Stuff.”
