Two Airmen who initially lied about the circumstances of a shooting that left a fellow airman dead on a military base in Wyoming have pleaded guilty in a court-martial proceeding to making false statements.

Brayden Lovan was shot and killed on F.E. Warren Air Force Base in July. Lovan’s death was initially alleged to have been the result of a Sig Sauer pistol firing unintentionally, a claim that spurred a review of the weapon’s safety.

But according to new information released by the Air Force, authorities now believe Lovan was killed when fellow Airman Marcus White-Allen pointed his M18 handgun “at Lovan’s chest in a joking manner,” and then pulled the trigger. Laboratory tests found no defects with the gun, according to an Air Force statement.

In August, the Air Force announced an arr

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