Nellis airman and wife dead after standoff
Posted : Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 18:44:09 EST
An airman stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and his wife were found dead of gunshot wounds Friday morning after a two-and-a-half hour standoff with police.
Around 5:30 a.m. Friday, North Las Vegas police responded to reports a man was holding a gun to a woman’s head.
Airman 1st Class Jason Klinkenberg responded to a knock at the door of his apartment by firing shots out the window toward the police officers, according to a release from authorities.
A SWAT team that stormed the apartment two-and-a-half hours later found Jason Klinkenberg and Crystal L. Klinkenberg dead of gunshot wounds, police said.
Klinkenberg, originally from Utah, was assigned to the 99th Logistical Readiness Squadron based at Nellis.
From September 2005 to February 2006, he was assigned to Detachment 2632, a joint Army and Air Force unit responsible for running supplies through the explosives heavy Iraqi highways, at what is now Joint Base Balad.
Klinkenberg received treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after the tour, Nellis officials confirmed Sunday.
About a year ago, another airman who authorities believe was suffering from PTSD killed his two children and himself at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Tech. Sgt. Dustin Thorson had deployed to Iraq from July to October 2006.
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