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A Fredericksburg woman will serve six months behind bars in a plea agreement reached Thursday over her role in a case involving a sleeping man who was killed by a stray bullet.

Nykema O.L. Barnett, 19, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery and was given a sentence of 20 years, with all but six months suspended. Three other charges—maliciously shooting into an occupied dwelling, shooting into an occupied dwelling resulting in death and use of a firearm in a felony—were dropped.

She had in February agreed to plead guilty to the same two charges and serve 30 days of a suspended 20-year sentence. In exchange, the three more serious charges were dropped.

But Judge Gordon Willis refused to accept the agreement, saying it was too far below the sentencing guidelines.

A different judge accepted the new agreement Thursday.

The victim in the shooting, Tesean Dorsey, was sleeping in a third-floor apartment on Greystone Court in the city’s Fall Hill Apartments complex at about 4:20 on the morning of June 20 when a bullet fired from outside came through a wall and a door and struck him in the head.

Dorsey was not the intended target—residents of the apartment said he’d been there only a few days.