December 16, 2012

Schodack business woman stabbed to death


By Lauren Stanforth
Updated 6:44 pm, Sunday, December 16, 2012


SCHODACK — The boyfriend of the realtor who was stabbed to death will be arraigned Sunday evening on second-degree murder charges.

At approximately 4:35 a.m. Sunday, emergency responders were called to 20 Bri Lan Ave for a report of an assault with a knife. Police arrived and found 33-year-old Nikki Hart, who was transported to Albany Memorial

Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Hart owns Hart Real Estate on Columbia Turnpike. She took the business over from her dad, Bill, in 2008. Another adult was at the home at the time of the killing.

Police and Rensselaer County District Attorney Richard McNally said
Sunday that Jason Guynup, 29, of the same address, crashed his truck
near Hayes Road shortly after the stabbing and was caught on foot by
police on Route 9J. He was taken into custody "as a person of interest,"
but is expected to be formally charged Sunday evening. The couple have
two children together, and Hart had taken Guynup to Family Court
recently, police said.

State Police are being assisted by police departments from East
Greenbush, North Greenbush, City of Rensselaer, Rensselaer County
Sheriff's, and the Rensselaer County District Attorney's Office.

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