Brennan Doyle, 18, of Colts Neck, has been sentenced to a 15-year state prison term for stabbing a township woman in her home before carjacking her vehicle in 2013, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced.
Doyle, who was 16 at the time the crimes were committed, previously 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, according to the prosecutor.
The sentence is subject to the provisions of the No Early Release Act, requiring Doyle to serve 85 percent of the sentence (about 13 years) before becoming eligible for release on parole. He will be under parole supervision for three years after his release from state prison.
The sentence was imposed on Oct. 29 by state Superior Court Judge Ronald Lee Reisner, sitting in Freehold.
According to the prosecutor, Colts Neck police received a 911 call at 12:30 a.m. July 7, 2013, from a township woman who reported she had been stabbed by an unknown assailant.
Police officers and emergency medical services personnel responded to her residence and determined she had been stabbed several times. The woman was taken to a 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 the victim heard noise coming from outside her house and when she opened her door to investigate, the assailant pushed his way into her house and stabbed her several times and left her for dead.
Doyle then took the keys to her car and fled the scene in her vehicle. The vehicle was recovered in neighboring Aberdeen Township later that same morning, according to the prosecutor.