An Illinois man has accepted a plea deal that will allow him to avoid a murder conviction and decades in prison for a shooting he was accused of committing with his brother, which left a pregnant woman and her unborn child dead, and her 4-year-old daughter without an eye.

The shooting allegedly stemmed from a dispute over Snapchat.

"She was an innocent bystander, sitting peacefully on the couch when she was struck by stray bullets," a GoFundMe description says about victim Ja'Niah Thomas. The 20-year-old was 26 weeks pregnant when Mattavius Anderson, who was 18 at the time of the 2023 shooting, allegedly opened fire on a home Thomas was in.

"At the time of her demise, her precious four-year old daughter was shot in the eye," the GoFundMe says.

Anderson, now 21, was set to go on trial o

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