CHESTNUT HILL TOWNSHIP, PA. (THECOUNT) — Nicholas Vollweiler, of Saylorsburg, PA, has been identified as the Air Force Airman murdered while stationed on Yokota Air Base in Japan Friday.
A 27-year-old woman was arrested on scene. Vollweiler’s age was not provided.
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Officials with the Air Force say Vollweiler was murdered in his home Friday where he was stationed near Tokyo, Japan.
Vollweiler was a graduate of Pleasant Valley High School in the Poconos and was stationed at the Yokota Air Base in western Japan working as a K-9 instructor and handler for the Air Force. source
According to Stars and Stripes, a military news source, the circumstances surrounding Vollweiler’s death are still under investigation by the Air Force, however Japanese officials have a woman in custody and the stabbing death does not appear to be random.
Vollweiler was competing and award winning K9 handler.