Airman Brayden Lovan, 21, assigned to the 90th Security Forces Squadron at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was shot and killed on July 20, 2025, around 1:30 a.m. Lovan, from Greenville, Kentucky, was on duty and had been on his first assignment since entering active duty in November 2023. The wound was inflicted by an M18 service pistol; officials described the shooting as not a hostile act but a purported joke gone horribly wrong when a fellow airman pointed the pistol at Lovan’s chest and it discharged.

Afterward, the airman who fired allegedly instructed two other airmen, Sarbjot Badesha and Matthew Rodriguez, to give false statements claiming the pistol discharged during a belt-slam against a desk. That deception initially led investigators to treat the death as an accidental discharge and prompted a temporary suspension in the unit’s use of the M18 pistol. An arrest was later made in connection with the shooting, and the two airmen accused of providing false statements subsequently pleaded guilty and received non-military confinement and administrative penalties.

Does anyone have information about Lovan’s assignment at F.E. Warren or witnessed activity on base that night?