New Footage Changes the View of This Shooting

Newly released police video shows the Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting as a chaotic attack stopped in part by armed civilians.

Quick Take

Police released surveillance and body camera footage showing the shooting from the drive-thru to the canyon.
Officials credited an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper and armed civilian Jordan Salinas with helping stop the gunman.
Video and witness accounts show gunfire exchanged near the restaurant before police arrived.
The record still does not provide a full forensic timeline that isolates each person’s exact effect.

Police Release New Footage of the Attack

Twin Falls police released new surveillance and body camera footage that shows the In-N-Out shooting from the first shots to the suspect’s death. The video captures the gunman driving to the restaurant, opening fire at the drive-thru window, and triggering a fast panic inside and outside the building. Police said the release was meant to show the full timeline of the deadly scene.

ABC News reported that the footage also showed employees diving for cover while the gunman moved from the drive-thru toward other victims. Other outlets said the composite video traced the attack from the restaurant lot to the Snake River Canyon, where officers later found the suspect after he died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The footage made the incident more concrete, but it also showed how fast the scene broke apart.

Armed Civilians Entered the Fight

Police Chief Matthew Hicks said an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper and an armed civilian helped drive the suspect away from the restaurant. Officials also said the civilian, identified in multiple reports as Jordan Salinas, exchanged fire with the gunman during the attack. That detail matters because it puts an armed private citizen at the center of a real-world test of self-defense and immediate response.

Witness Lane Koehn gave one of the clearest accounts of why that mattered. He said the shooter stayed focused on the armed bystander long enough for others to escape. NBC News quoted Koehn saying, “The shooter was solely focused on him, and it allowed us to get out.” That is not a full forensic finding, but it does support the view that the bystander’s fire changed the moment for people on the ground.

Why the Timeline Still Matters

The available record supports the broad sequence, but it does not answer every hard question. Police and media reports say the armed civilian and the off-duty trooper both fired before officers arrived. They also say the suspect later died at the scene. What the public record does not yet show is a shot-by-shot reconstruction proving exactly whose fire caused the gunman to move, pause, or break off the attack.

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That gap matters because early praise can harden a story before the evidence is complete. Twin Falls County Sheriff Jack Johnson called the armed civilian and the trooper “true heroes,” and police framed their actions as life-saving. Those comments fit a pattern conservatives know well: when armed citizens act first, critics rush to argue about guns, while the raw facts often lag behind the headlines. Here, the praise is strong, but the full file would still matter.

The wider context also shows why officials were eager to push out the new footage. Reports said there was no known motive, and police had already dealt with false online claims about the shooter’s identity. In a case like this, misinformation spreads fast, and partial video can become the main public record. The Twin Falls release helps clarify the basic sequence, but it also shows how much still depends on official narration and later review.