OSSIPEE, N.H. (AP) – A woman will spend 15 to 30 years in prison for killing another woman in a fight over a beer last year.

Maureen McDonald of Tamworth was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Police said McDonald stabbed Jennifer Correa, 31, several times when they fought in March 2006 at a house party in Tamworth. She was sobbing throughout the hearing.

Prosecutors said McDonald was highly intoxicated when she killed Correa in an argument over beer.

“I think about how you would feel being 13 years old and not having a mother,” Correa’s 13-year-old daughter wrote in a statement read to the judge. “The only reason why I am not at court right now is because I probably couldn’t handle seeing your evil, wicked self.”

Correa’s mother, Renee McClelland, told the judge how much the family has suffered since the stabbing.

“I will feel the emptiness and ache in my heart at her loss every day for the rest of my life on this earth,” McClelland said.

McDonald was facing an additional charge of criminal threatening. Police said she threatened to kill another woman while out on bail on the murder charge. Prosecutors said the threatening charge will be dismissed pending a year of good behavior at the New Hampshire State Prison.

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