Woman Sentenced for 2014 Overdose Death at St. Charles Hotel

A 24-year-old Schaumburg woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for supplying the drugs that killed a Bartlett man at a hotel in St. Charles in 2014, prosecutors said.

Katharyn M. Stanish, of the 1400 block of Tonset Lane in Schaumburg, agreed to a plea deal on Friday and entered a guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter, a class 2 felony, and was sentenced to prison, according to a Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office press release.

Kane County prosecutors presented evidence that on Dec. 10, 2014, Bradley Schiller, 23, of Bartlett attended a job fair at a hotel off the 2700 block of Foxfield Road in St. Charles. Stanish, who was Schiller’s friend, rented a room in the hotel and waited there for Schiller, according to the news release.

Schiller eventually went to the room to meet Stanish, and the two ingested heroin and cocaine that Stanish had purchased and supplied to Schiller, prosecutors said. Stanish passed out, and when she woke an hour later, Schiller was unconscious on the floor.

Stanish first called a friend and then called 9-1-1, according to the news release. Schiller was taken by ambulance to Delnor Hospital in Geneva where he died four days later. The cause of Schiller’s death was determined to be cocaine and heroin intoxication as the result of an overdose, according to the news release.

During the sentencing hearing, Schiller’s mother, father and sister gave statements to the court about how Bradley’s death has affected them.

According to Illinois law, Stanish is eligible for day-for-day sentencing. She receives credit for one day served in the Kane County jail. Stanish had been free on $15,000 bond.

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