A pregnant woman was shot in the stomach....

This happened in Alabama.
The police believe that the woman intiatated the shooting. The woman was not shot by the police. The woman was charged with manslaughter for the loss of the fetus

Are the police correct in this instance or is this going to far?

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Mamapolo2016 · F

My understanding of this case now is that the woman who was shot was engaged in a violent assault and her victim shot in self-defense.

The death of the child she was carrying is apparently being considered a death which occurred in the commission of a felony - her assault on the other woman.

Friends of my stepson experienced this aspect of the law twenty years ago.
They broke in the door of a farmhouse and the farmer shot at them. One boy was hit in the thumb and fell to the ground. The farmer thought he had killed the young man and went into cardiac arrest. Later that night he died and the ones who broke in to his house (a felony) were arrested on either manslaughter or murder charges, I forget which.