Colts Neck Teen Accused of Stabbing Woman In July To Be Tried as Adult

A Colts Neck Township teenager will be prosecuted as an adult in connection with the July 7, 2013 stabbing of a Colts Neck Township woman at her home, announced Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

Brennan Doyle, 17, is charged with one count of first degree Attempted Murder; one count of first degree Carjacking; one count of third degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon; and one count of fourth degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose. 

Doyle is being held in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, Freehold Township, on a total of $760,000 bail with no 10 percent option, as set by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge James J. McGann, J.S.C.  Judge McGann also ordered Doyle to have no victim contact and no return to scene on all four charges, if he should be released on bail.

Township police received a 911 call on July 7, 2013 from a Colts Neck woman indicating she was stabbed by an unknown assailant at her home on Bray Street, between Route 34 and Holmdel Road. The Colts Neck Police Department and emergency medical services responded to her residence where they discovered she had been stabbed several times. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. She remained in the hospital for several days where she was treated for her injuries and eventually discharged.

A joint investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Colts Neck Police Department revealed that the victim heard some noise coming from the outside of her house and when she went to open her door to investigate, Doyle allegedly pushed his way into her house and stabbed her several times. Police say Doyle then took the keys to her car and fled the scene in her vehicle parked in her driveway. The vehicle was recovered in Aberdeen later that same morning.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release that the office was prohibited from releasing personal information regarding this matter until the matter was transferred to Monmouth County Superior Court, Criminal Part, pursuant to statute. 

The prosecution of this case is being handled by Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Laurie B. Gerhardt, Director of this Office’s Family Division. Doyle is represented by Mitchell Ansell, Esq. of Ocean Township.