Evelena Williams, seen here after her preliminary hearing in October 2024, was sentenced Friday to 10 to 20 years in state prison for killing Latoya Davis and Davis' unborn son. Read more Vinny Vella / Staff

by Vinny Vella Published Dec. 12, 2025, 1:51 p.m. ET

Evelina Williams told a Delaware County judge she’s been agonizing for more than a year over her split-second decision to fatally shoot a pregnant woman and her unborn child.

For that, the Southwest Philadelphia woman was sentenced Friday to 10 to 20 years in state prison.

“I am not God. I can’t decide who lives and who dies,” Williams, 31, told Judge Kevin F. Kelly. “This is the biggest mistake of my life, and I hate myself for it.”

Williams pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and third-degree murder of an unbor

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