Lisa Pollitt, a reporter at New Brunswick Today, has been charged with murder after she intentionally drove her vehicle into oncoming traffic on Route 130 last Thursday, prosecutors say.
Ann “Nancy” Stewart, a 95-year-old woman from Monroe, died of injuries sustained in the crash two days later. Another woman was the driver of the car hit by Pollitt.
“The murder appears to be a random act as Pollitt and the victims were unknown to one another,” a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office stated.
Prosecutors said that Pollitt, a 36-year-old Cranbury resident, was arrested and charged with second and third-degree aggravated assault and fourth-degree obstruction. A charge of first-degree murder was added following Stewart’s death.
Pollitt remains in police custody as she awaits a Superior Court hearing.
Stewart was a former English teacher and great-grandmother who was an elder at her church.
In 2016, at age 89, Stewart fulfilled a lifelong dream to rise in a blimp as part of a program sponsored by Twilight Wish.
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