Brick Woman Gets 6 Years In Grandmother's Beating Death: Report

Toms River, NJ -- A Brick Township woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for beating her grandmother to death in 2014, according to a report.

NJ.com reported that Katherine Schubert, 39, will have to serve just over five years of her term before becoming eligible for parole and has two years of credit as she has been in the Ocean County Jail, Toms River, since shortly after the death of 94-year-old Mary Driscoll on May 16, 2014.

Schubert said in court that she takes responsibility for the attack but has no memory of it, according to NJ.com. She told Judge Wendel E. Daniels that she had consumed two bottles of alcohol and taken a dozen Ambien sleeping pills prior to the attack.

Police were called to Mary Driscoll's home in Lions Head Woods after Michele Schubert, Katherine's mother, and a friend of Michele Schubert had gone to the home to check on the Katherine Schubert and Driscoll after being unable to reach them, Patch reported at the time. 

When police entered the apartment, prosecutor's office spokesman Al Della Fave said at the time, they found Katherine Schubert "highly intoxicated," sitting in the kitchen, and Driscoll slumped over a bed in her bedroom.

Driscoll died five days later.

Family members asked the judge for a minimal sentence, saying Schubert has battled drug addiction for years, NJ.com reported.

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