Heart-pounding surveillance footage shows three heroic civilians firing back at Idaho In-N-Out gunman Chad Williams – helping to stop the mass shooter from carrying out more carnage.
Williams, 24, was confronted by an ex-cop, an off-duty state trooper and an armed good Samaritan at different points during the rampage that left three dead and seven wounded, according to chilling video released by the Twin Falls Police Department Friday.
The footage begins with Williams pulling up in a white Honda Civic to the trendy eatery’s drive-thru window, where he swiftly pulls out a gun and shoots In-N-Out employee Ashley Garibay, who later died from her injuries.
Williams’ car then creeps forward a few feet before he emerges with a black handgun and walks toward the drive-thru’s second window.
There, he fatally shoots the second victim, 59-year-old Christopher Claunch, who was inside another car, according to the video’s narrator.
That’s when former Twin Falls and Idaho State Police Officer Austin “AJ” Scott starts running toward the gunman, the pulse-racing video shows.
Williams points his gun at Scott and opens fire, striking the ex-cop in the rampage — which cops have yet to release a motive for.
A wounded Scott pulls out his own handgun while then preparing to confront Williams in a different area of the parking lot.
But “due to [Scott’s] severe injury and blood loss, he is pulled back into his vehicle before going to the hospital,” the narrator explains.
The clip shows another individual grabbing Scott by his shirt and dragging him toward one of at least five cars in line for the drive-thru.
Scott’s father has since written on Facebook that his son was “critically injured” and now faces “a long road of surgeries, recovery and rehab.”
The terrifying surveillance video eventually pans to show Williams peering back into the restaurant’s payment window, where he fires another shot at employees who were inside rendering aid to Garibay, 23.
At that point, his handgun jams, so he heads back to his car to retrieve a rifle before going into the restaurant, the narrator says.
Meanwhile, surveillance footage taken from inside the eatery’s kitchen shows at least nine employees frantically scrambling over each other on the ground while a second hero – an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper – is seen waving one hand and holding a back handgun in the other, motioning for them to flee the area.
The unidentified trooper bravely helped evacuate employees and customers before he carefully canvassed the restaurant’s back-of-house area, according to police and the footage.
He eventually comes face-to-face with Williams.
The two exchange fire before Williams briefly retreats from the window.
He soon returns and fires another shot through the window, striking “a Good Samaritan who is attempting to assist the off-duty trooper and render aid to the victim inside,” the narrator says.
Williams then flees the restaurant and opens fire on multiple vehicles stopped at a nearby red light, striking three victims, before running to a nearby Tesla charging station, according to the video.
There, he fires at the first Tesla he sees before fatally shooting Dale Schultz, 66, and hitting the man’s now gravely injured wife, Reinette, inside their car.
But Williams is confronted once again – this time by “an armed good Samaritan,” who fires back at him, the narrator says.
An officer’s bodycam footage later shows the moment he spots Williams on a nearby river bank.
“Hey, show me your hands!” the cop yells.
At that very moment, Williams “dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and falls into the canyon,” the narrator says as the video ends.
Authorities on Friday praised the civilians who intervened during the deadly rampage – crediting their actions with saving lives.
“The Twin Falls Police Department is certain that additional acts of heroism and rendering aid to those in need contributed to the saving of lives,” reads a slide at the end of the video.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether any of the bystanders shown or mentioned were Jordan Salinas, a healthcare worker and the full-time caregiver of his brother, who has been hailed as a local hero since he reportedly intervened during the shooting.
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