Healdsburg: Sentencing in drunk boyfriend's killing HEALDSBURG

A Healdsburg woman was sentenced Tuesday to 26 years to life in prison for killing her boyfriend because he was too drunk to attend a Christmas party.

Sheyna Douprea, 25, stabbed 46-year-old Daniel Gerard Mooney numerous times in the neck Dec. 14, 2008, at his Mason Street apartment in Healdsburg. Investigators said she had been enraged that Mooney was in no condition to go to his employer's Christmas party with her.

Douprea's attorney argued that Mooney had battered her and that she had been trying to defend herself.

Witnesses testified that Douprea had a history of violent, unpredictable behavior.

A Sonoma County jury convicted her of first-degree murder in August.