Lyons purchased the gun legally in April 2024 from a widow whose husband had previously owned it legally. Then, police say ...

More than a month since a shooting at a Butte County elementary school critically wounded a student, leading to fears he may ...

An Arizona man was arrested for selling a "ghost gun" used in a Butte County school shooting. The gun was sold to a convicted felon who later used it in the incident.

The man who sold it a final time was Jesse Kitagawa Jr., 45, of Phoenix. The school shooting in California's Butte County happened on Dec. 4 of last year at the Feather River Adventist School in ...

Butte sheriff’s officials said Litton bought the ghost gun used in the school shooting from Jesse Kitagawa Jr., a convicted felon who is barred from purchasing or possessing any firearms.

The firearm, lacking serial numbers, was traced back to Steven Lyons, a 77-year-old from Buckeye, Arizona, who legally purchased it before selling it to Jesse Kitagawa Jr., a 45-year-old convicted ...