Teen Sentenced For Stabbing Woman Inside Her Monmouth County Home, Authorities Say

A judge sentenced an 18-year-old Colts Neck man to a 15-year prison term for stabbing a woman inside her Colts Neck home, authorities said.

Brennan Doyle, was 16-years-old when he repeatedly stabbed the woman in 2013, but a judge ruled he could be tried as an adult. Doyle, who is now 18, “admitted he repeatedly stabbed the victim in her Colts Neck home with the intent of killing her before fleeing the home in the victim’s motor vehicle,” a news release from acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.

Doyle must serve at least 12 years, 9 months before he can be eligible for parole. Upon release, he must serve three years on parole, under the terms of the sentence handed down Thursday by state Superior Court Judge Ronald Lee Reisner, sitting in Freehold.

In court, his attorney, Mitchell Ansell, said his client had no prior convictions and has since received drug treatment, but that night he “took too many hallucinogenic mushrooms,” NJ.com reported.

Around 12:30 a.m. July 7, 2013, the victim called Colts Neck police and said she was stabbed by someone she did not know, according to the news release.

“I could taste, see and hear the blood pouring out of my body,” the woman said in court, according to NJ.com. “It was an absolute nightmare.”

When she was brought to the hospital, she was listed in critical condition. She was hospitalized for several days, authorities said.

The woman lost about half of the blood in her body, Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Laurie B. Gerhardt, Director of the Office’s Family Division, said in court, according to NJ.com.

Investigators from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and Colts Neck police determined the victim heard a noise outside, and when she opened the door to investigate, Doyle forced his way in, stabbed her and left her for dead, authorities said.

He took her car keys and stole her vehicle, which was recovered later that morning in Aberdeen.