JUST IN: Prosecutors drop case against Alabama woman who was charged with manslaughter after she was shot and her fetus died.
Marshae Jones was charged with manslaughter by a grand jury after she was shot in the stomach during a December fight, police in Pleasant Grove said. Police said that Jones, who was five months pregnant at the time, incited the fight about the baby's father.
Lawyers for Jones said in a statement Wednesday that they were"gratified" that prosecutors chose to drop the case, which was"neither reasonable nor just." But a Jefferson County grand jury declined to indict after police said Jones started the fight, and Jemison, 23, ultimately fired in self-defense — though Jones was not armed. The same grand jury then said Jones did"intentionally cause the death" of her unborn child by allegedly starting the fight.
“The person with the gun is the one responsible for the loss of the fetus,” Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women , said to NBC News in a statement last week.
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