Video Shows Good Samaritan Try To Take Out Shooter Who Allegedly Killed 3, Wounded 7 At Fast Food Restaurant

An armed bystander traded gunfire with a rifle-wielding attacker outside an Idaho In-N-Out on Saturday as a rampage unfolded that left at least three people dead and seven hurt, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Cellphone footage captured by witness Lane Koehn, 34, shows the citizen firing his handgun at the assailant during the chaos in Twin Falls. Koehn, stopped at a nearby traffic light, told the AP he watched a man carrying an AR-style rifle step out of the drive-thru before a second man opened fire on him with a pistol. The shooter squeezed off at least three or four rounds, Koehn said.

Koehn also saw a wounded In-N-Out worker, bleeding from her chest, being pulled across the parking lot by a coworker. He, the coworker and the armed man stayed beside her until medics arrived. “She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know. I hope she made it,” Koehn told the AP. (RELATED: Axe-Wielding Maniac Gets Dirt Nap After Good Samaritan With Gun Steps In)

Online, users moved quickly to name the armed bystander as Jordan Salinas, a Twin Falls resident, circulating a 2024 social media post in which a man by that name wrote about firearms training. Police have not confirmed the identity of the man in the video or that Salinas was involved.

Another customer, Nayeli Rodriguez, 40, of Burley, was inside with her daughters when shots rang out from the kitchen. An employee shouted for everyone to drop down, and an older man tried to shield her family before strangers pulled them into a car to flee. “We were trying to get as far as we could and some angels let us in their car,” Rodriguez told the AP in a text message.

The attacker died at the scene, and Jerome Police Chief Duane Rubink told CNN it appeared the shooter took his own life. Investigators have not released his name or a motive, and Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said it remained unclear whether anyone was singled out.

City spokesman Josh Palmer provided the death and injury count and said some of the wounded were in critical condition, the Associated Press reported. In-N-Out President Lynsi Snyder confirmed one of the company’s employees was among those killed, according to NBC News.

The gunfire erupted around 2 p.m. in one of the city’s busiest shopping plazas, where hundreds of people were nearby. Officers from several agencies responded, and the wounded were rushed to St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center. The FBI is assisting local police, ABC News reported.

Hicks said the danger had passed. “We believe the threat to the community is over,” he told reporters.

The restaurant had opened only a week earlier as part of In-N-Out’s push into Idaho. Casualty counts remain preliminary.