Police in Twin Falls, Idaho, released a video on Friday, August 7, 2026, showing a mass shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant the previous weekend. Three people were killed and ten were shot in total. The eight-and-a-half-minute video was put together from security cameras and police body cameras by the Twin Falls Police Department. Faces were blurred and graphic images were removed (The Guardian).

The gunman was Chad Williams, 24. He had briefly attended the College of Southern Idaho and had previously lived in Arizona. Williams fired shots in several spots around the restaurant: inside the building, just outside, on a busy road nearby, and at a car charging station in a visitor center parking lot. He walked up to the restaurant's drive-thru window four separate times and fired, killing an employee (The Guardian). Security video shows Williams holding a gun and approaching a car at the drive-thru before shooting at people and being tracked by police (ClickOnDetroit). When officers caught up to Williams on a nearby walking trail, he killed himself (The Guardian).

The three people who were killed were Ashley Garibay, 23, of Stockton, California; Dale Schultz, 66, of Salt Lake City; and Christopher Claunch, 59, of Hagerman, Idaho. Two were from out of state and one was a local man known for helping others get sober (WRAL). A candlelight vigil for the victims was held in Twin Falls on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 (MyTwinTiers).

Twin Falls police chief Matthew Hicks said investigators do not yet know why Williams carried out the shooting (The Guardian).

The video and police accounts show that several regular people and off-duty officers stepped in during the attack. An off-duty state trooper who was inside the restaurant shot at Williams and helped workers get out of the building. A former police officer named AJ James was wounded while confronting the gunman. Hicks also praised an unarmed bystander, Braxton Steube, who faced Williams outdoors and slowed him down on the walking trail (The Guardian). Steube said he had run from a Dick's Sporting Goods store before encountering Williams on the trail. He told the gunman he had a family, and Williams shot at him and missed (The Guardian). The released video also shows an In-N-Out employee confronting the gunman near the restaurant (Idaho News 6 / Facebook).

The broader context here is that police departments across the country have increasingly released edited video footage after major violent events to give the public a clear record of what happened. The Twin Falls Police Department, not the Idaho State Police, put together and published the video (ClickOnDetroit). The choice to blur faces and leave out graphic content was a way to be transparent without causing more pain to victims' families and the community. For investigators, the lack of a known motive after nearly a week is the biggest unanswered question. Williams moved from the drive-thru to a visitor center parking lot to a walking trail, suggesting his violence was scattered rather than focused on one specific target.

Several people stepped in during the attack, some armed and some not. Steube, who had no weapon, slowed the gunman. James, a former officer, was wounded. An off-duty trooper fired back from inside the restaurant. Whether these actions changed how the attack unfolded is something the video and police statements only partly answer, but Hicks's decision to highlight them suggests investigators see them as important to the sequence of events.