A sign at Gate Two to the entrance to F.E. Warren Air Force Base outside Cheyenne, Wyo., on Aug. 13, 2025. (Mead Gruver/AP)
An airman at F.E. Warren Air Force Base was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a man on Saturday in Cheyenne, Wyo., just outside the base, local police and military officials said.
Airman 1st Class Jadan Orr, 20, was arrested in the early morning shooting of an unnamed 23-year-old man at an apartment complex outside the intercontinental ballistic missile base, the Air Force and Cheyenne Police Department said Tuesday. Orr, who is assigned to the Air Force’s 90th Missile Wing, is the second F.E. Warren airman facing involuntary manslaughter charges in a gun death in recent weeks.
Cheyenne police charged Orr had been drinking alcohol with friends in an apartment complex about 4 miles from the F.E. Warren gates when he entered a bedroom with two other individuals and picked up an AK-47 assault rifle at about 3:30 a.m.
“While manipulating the firearm, Orr charged it and fired it through the wall into the [same apartment’s] living room, striking the victim in the torso,” Cheyenne police said in a statement.
Emergency medical personnel responded, but the victim died at the scene, police said. The incident remained under investigation, and police declined further comment on the case.
F.E. Warren officials pledged support for the probe.
“We are fully supporting the investigation and remain committed to taking care of our airmen and their families during this extremely difficult time,” Col. Terry Holmes, the 90th Missile Wing’s commander, said in the news release.
The shooting death came just weeks after another member of the 90th Missile Wing was killed in an apparent accidental shooting incident on base. Airman Bradan Lovan, 21, died in that July 20 shooting.
Lovan’s death led to an immediate halting of the use of the Sig Sauer-produced M18 pistol among airman in Air Force Global Strike Command and a service-wide order to inspect the safety of the Air Force’s M18 inventory.
While the service has continued to investigate the safety of its M18s, Air Force officials announced last week that an airman had been arrested in Lovan’s death and charged with involuntary manslaughter, making false statements and obstruction of justice.
Air Force officials have said the investigation’s into Lovan’s shooting is ongoing, but the charges appear to indicate investigators believe the incident was the result of an accidental discharge and not a so-called “uncommanded discharge,” in which the gun went off without the trigger being pulled.
The service has yet to publicly name the airman arrested in Lovan’s death because of the ongoing nature of the probe, a service official said Tuesday.
