By Gina Tron
July 5, 2019, 8:38 AM ET
Acontroversial manslaughter charged filed against a Alabama woman who suffered a miscarriage after she was shot in the stomach has been dropped.
Outrage erupted online last week after the news broke that a grand jury indicted Marshae Jones on manslaughter charges in her unborn baby's death, while her alleged shooter had her charges dismissed. They decided she was responsible for the miscarriage because she provoked another woman into violence. The shooting occurred in 2018 when the 28-year-old Birmingham woman was five months pregnant; she was shot in the stomach near a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, resulting in a miscarriage, according to the Washington Post.
The alleged shooter, 23-year-old Ebony Jemison, was initially charged with manslaughter but a grand jury declined to indict her. Investigators say she acted in self-defense and that it was Jones who triggered the fight.
Officials announced Wednesday that Jones was no longer being charged with manslaughter, AL.com reports.
"After reviewing the facts of this case and the applicable state law, I have determined that it is not in the best interest of justice to pursue prosecution of Ms. Jones on the manslaughter charge for which she was indicted by the grand jury,’’ Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Lynneice Washington said at a Wednesday press conference. “Therefore, I am hereby dismissing this case, and no further legal action will be taken against Ms. Jones in this matter.”
She called the case a “disturbing and heartbreaking one,” one where “an unborn child was tragically lost, and families on both sides of this matter have suffered. Nothing we do today or in the future will change that reality.”
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