Brick Woman Suspected of Killing Grandmother Due in Court Monday

The Brick Township woman suspected of beating her own 94-year-old grandmother to death will make her first court appearance Monday, officials said.

Katherine Schubert, 37, was scheduled to make a first appearance in Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels' court room in Toms River on Thursday but as court was beginning, an administrator announced that the case had been adjourned to next week.

The clerk administrator said "procedural issues" were the reason for the delay.

Schubert is being represented by Dawn Nee, a public defender. Chief Trial Attorney Laura Pierro is handling the state's case, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.

Schubert is being held in the Ocean County Jail on charges of murder after her 94-year-old grandmother, Mary Francis Driscol, was found slumped in her bed after being assaulted in her home in the Lion's Head North senior community in Brick. Driscol later succumbed to complications from head injuries, an autopsy showed.

Driscol was found in the home by her daughter – who is also the suspect's mother – and a friend after relatives did not hear from her for two days. Schubert, who was reportedly living in her grandmother's home, was described as being "highly intoxicated" when the pair arrived and called police.

Schubert's bail remained set at $750,000 cash on Thursday.