Kevin Ray Stone, 29, had been sought by police since the shooting, which killed Skyler Rapp, seriously wounded his 22-year-old mother, Desiree Kirby, and left several others with gunshot wounds as well, including Kirby's boyfriend Ross Sparks, 25; his brother, Andrew Sparks, 23; Ian Griffith, 19; and Joey Armijo, 15.
Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies arrested Stone early Friday morning in a Santa Rosa neighborhood, where they found him and his girlfriend, 25-year-old Leighann Painchaud of Clearlake, parked in a stolen green Ford Explorer, according to a Friday report.
Det. Sgt. Carlos Basurto of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Investigations Unit reported that the unit's detectives received information at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday that Stone – driving the stolen Explorer – had been spotted in several different areas of Santa Rosa.
Basurto's report explained that Sonoma County Sheriff's detectives and patrol deputies searched several areas before receiving an anonymous tip at approximately 1:20 a.m. that the green Explorer was parked on Santa Rosa's Aston Way, which dead ends at La Esplanada Place.
When they responded to the location they found the Explorer, along with Stone and Painchaud, who Basurto reported were arrested without incident – Stone for the outstanding murder arrest warrant and Painchaud in connection with the stolen vehicle.
Clearlake Police Sgt. Tim Hobbs said Painchaud is believed to have taken the vehicle, which was reported stolen out of Clearlake on Wednesday, June 29.
Basurto reported that both Stone and Painchaud had been booked into the Sonoma County Jail.
Sonoma County Sheriff's officials would not release the booking photos of the pair when requested to do so by Lake County News on Friday.
Hobbs said he didn't know when Stone and Painchaud would be transported to Lake County, noting that Clearlake Police has seven days to bring the two back to the Lake County Jail.
Neither had been booked into the Lake County Jail by early Saturday morning.
Stone is the last of the suspects police were looking to arrest in the case, Hobbs said.
Police already have taken Orlando Joseph Lopez, 23, and Paul William Braden, 21, into custody in the case. Both are being held without bail in the Lake County Jail.
Braden and Lopez both appeared in court earlier this week, with Braden entering not guilty pleas to more than a dozen charges including murder, five charges of attempted murder, six counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of mayhem and several special allegations.
Braden is set for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 1, according to District Attorney Don Anderson, who said this week that he will personally handle prosecuting all three suspects.
Lopez, who had been released last week but rearrested this week after police assembled the evidence needed to charge him, also was arraigned on the same charges as Braden, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff.
Stone will face the same charges when he's brought back to Lake County. He was formally charged last week in filings submitted by Hinchcliff, as Lake County News has reported.
Painchaud had, in recent days, denied knowing of Stone's whereabouts in posts on her Facebook page.
In a June 20 posting she maintained that Stone had not shot anyone, pointing to the arrests that day of Braden and Lopez, who she accused of being the ones who actually shot and killed the child.
On June 27 she said she would never hide someone involved in such an incident. A number of people posted responses to her on her page that included obscenities and threats.
Even Sunni Forney, Kirby's mother and Skyler Rapp's grandmother, weighed in, leaving an obscenity-laced message that accused Painchaud of defending Stone. “How dare you hide him and how dare your friends stick up for you!” Forney said Stone took “one of the most important people in my life,” noting that the child – “the most happiest boy” – is to be buried on Wednesday.
Kirby has yet to be released from UC Davis Medical Center, where she was flown for care after the shooting. The rest of the surviving victims were released last week.
On Friday hospital spokesman Charles Casey said Kirby remained in fair condition.
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