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.
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.
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