Lyons purchased the gun legally in April 2024 from a widow whose husband had previously owned it legally. Then, police say Lyons sold it to Jesse Kitagawa Jr., 45, on April 8, 2024, not knowing Kitagawa was a convicted felon.

A man suspected of illegally selling the gun used in the Dec. 4 Feather River Seventh-day Adventist School shooting was arrested in Arizona, according to a press release from Butte County