Police in Twin Falls, Idaho, released an eight-and-a-half-minute video compilation on Friday, August 7, 2026, documenting a mass shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant the previous weekend that left three people dead and ten total shot. The footage, assembled from surveillance cameras and bodycams by the Twin Falls Police Department, was edited to blur faces and omit graphic images (The Guardian).

The gunman was identified as Chad Williams, 24, who had briefly attended the College of Southern Idaho and previously lived in Arizona. Williams opened fire across multiple locations clustered around the restaurant: inside the building, directly outside, on an adjacent busy road, and at a car charging station in a Twin Falls visitor center lot. He walked up to the In-N-Out drive-thru window four separate times and opened fire, killing an employee (The Guardian). The surveillance video shows Williams holding a firearm and approaching a car at the drive-thru before shooting at victims and being tracked down by law enforcement (ClickOnDetroit). When police caught up to Williams on a nearby walking trail, he killed himself (The Guardian).

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

Twin Falls police chief Matthew Hicks said investigators do not yet have a motive for the shooting (The Guardian).

The footage and police accounts detail the role several civilians and off-duty personnel played in disrupting the attack. An off-duty state trooper inside the restaurant shot at Williams and directed workers out of the building. Former police officer AJ James was wounded while confronting the gunman. Hicks separately praised an unarmed bystander, Braxton Steube, who engaged Williams outdoors and slowed him on the walking trail (The Guardian). Steube said he had fled a Dick's Sporting Goods store before encountering Williams on the trail, 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 the evolving practice of law enforcement agencies releasing edited footage of mass-casualty events to establish a public record of what occurred. The Twin Falls Police Department, rather than the Idaho State Police, assembled and published the compilation (ClickOnDetroit). The decision to blur faces and omit graphic content reflects a balance between transparency and the risk of re-traumatizing victims' families and the wider community. For investigators, the absence of an identified motive after nearly a week is the central unresolved thread. Williams's movements across multiple locations, from the drive-thru to a visitor center parking lot to a walking trail, point to a relatively unstructured pattern of violence rather than a single targeted site.

Multiple individuals intervened without or alongside service weapons. Steube, unarmed, slowed the gunman. James, a former officer, was wounded. An off-duty trooper returned fire from inside the restaurant. Whether these interventions altered the trajectory of the attack is a question the video and police statements only partially answer, but Hicks's decision to single them out signals their tactical significance in the sequence of events as understood by investigators.