‘Such a good mom’: Loved ones remembering woman killed in Fayette County hostage situation

NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A loving mother was killed in a deadly hostage situation that locked down a Fayette County neighborhood on Wednesday.

Investigators say Megan Kulenovic, 27, was taken hostage by Charles Nara. As a precaution, state police evacuated the entire apartment complex.

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Her 4-year-old daughter came out of an apartment at Woodview Terrace in North Union Township and handed an adult a note that said Nara had a hostage, guns and 50 gallons of gasoline.

“She’s so innocent. She just said, ‘My mommy’s sleeping on his bed, but she won’t wake up,’ So innocent. My heart aches for her,” Isabella Adamsky, Kulenovic’s best friend, told Channel 11.

“You never think something like that will happen so close to home, let alone to your best friend,” Adamsky said.

Adamsky is still in disbelief that her best friend is gone.

“She was the most generous person you’d ever meet. She loved kids. She was so great with kids. She was such a good mom,” Adamsky said.

When firefighters tried to get inside Nara’s apartment, they were met with flames and saw two bodies on the ground.

At this point, the Fayette County District Attorney told Channel 11, he’s investigating the case as a possible murder-suicide.

“It’s just a senseless act. It’s sickening. To take somebody with you for no reason. What is the reason? I have so many questions,” she said.

Kulenovic’s friend told us that she and Nara were not in a relationship, but she thinks she knows why he held her captive.

“I would say he was obsessed with her, for sure. He gave me creepy vibes. He was really nice, but he gave me just a weird vibe about him,” Adamsky added.

Kulenovic’s young daughter is now with other family members — who are beyond grateful she’s alive.

“By the grace of God, he let her daughter go. But he had no right to take a 27-year-old woman’s life who has a daughter, a family, who had everything going for her,” Adamsky said.

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