{"id":979081,"date":"2026-08-04T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:46:42","slug":"authorities-looking-for-gunmans-motive-in-shooting-at-idaho-in-n-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979081\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities looking for gunman’s motive in shooting at Idaho In-N-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting<\/a> at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men.<\/p>\n

The attack Saturday at a new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls ended when the gunman, identified by police as 24-year-old Chad Williams<\/a>, shot and killed himself. On Monday, police were still trying to determine why Williams carried out the attack, which happened early in the afternoon in a busy shopping plaza in the southern Idaho city.<\/p>\n

Many details about Williams\u2019 life were still unknown Monday, but an initial search of court records in Idaho and Arizona, where he used to live, didn\u2019t show any criminal cases matching his name and birth date.<\/p>\n

Man who knew gunman says he was \u2018pretty chill\u2019<\/p>\n

Elijah Moseley, who lived across the hall from Williams in a College of Southern Idaho dorm a few years ago, described him as \u201can introvert\u201d and \u201ca pretty chill guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never scared or weirded out by him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Moseley said he considered Williams a relatively close friend, though they lost touch a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m shocked by this and sick to my stomach about this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Detectives are confident that Williams acted alone, Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday, noting that Williams\u2019 family is cooperating fully with the investigation.<\/p>\n

Two of the wounded victims were treated at a hospital and released, three were listed as stable, and two others were in critical condition, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n

During the attack, an off-duty state trooper and a civilian fired on Williams and diverted him from the restaurant, the chief said. Police haven\u2019t disclosed their names or those of the victims, but some victims have been identified by friends and relatives. Twin Falls spokesperson Josh Palmer said Monday that police were still trying to identify next of kin.<\/p>\n

A vigil is planned for Tuesday evening at Twin Falls City Park, Palmer said.<\/p>\n

In-N-Out employee among those killed<\/p>\n

The attack happened at an In-N-Out that opened late last month as part of the California chain\u2019s Idaho expansion, and an employee at the burger joint was among those killed, the fast-food chain\u2019s owner, Lynsi Snyder, said in a statement. She didn\u2019t identify the worker. <\/p>\n

Kimberley Castaneda confirmed to The Associated Press that her brother, Christopher Claunch, was among those killed, but she declined to discuss him further.<\/p>\n

Garren Taylor, one of Claunch\u2019s friends, said that two years ago, Claunch completed a rehab program for alcohol abuse at Renaissance Ranch Recovery Center in Rupert, Idaho, and was immediately hired there. Taylor said Claunch, known to those close to him as \u201cToph,\u201d had since then dedicated his life to helping others get sober.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe helped hundreds of people,\u201d Taylor recalled Monday. \u201cHe was just a gift to anyone he came in contact with. It wasn\u2019t about the paycheck, his attitude was: \u2018I get to help someone today.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

Renaissance Ranch declined to comment Monday.<\/p>\n

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Wounded man moved closer to gunfire to help<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post, Marcus Scott said his son Austin \u201cA.J.\u201d Scott was critically wounded in the attack and faces a long recovery. He said his son was shot after he moved \u201ctoward the danger\u201d when he heard gunfire in an effort to protect others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly thankful that God spared his life and that his wife and friend were there to provide immediate care until he could get to the hospital,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Marcus Scott said in a message to the AP on Monday that his son used to work as a law enforcement officer for the Twin Falls police and the Idaho State Police. He declined to comment further on his son\u2019s actions, saying it is his son\u2019s story to tell.<\/p>\n

Terry Dudley, a driver for North Star Taxi, was shot as he was charging one of the company\u2019s Teslas in a parking lot next to the In-N-Out Burger, said James Palmer, who owns the taxi service and is Dudley\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n

Palmer said Dudley called him to tell him he was shot after he couldn\u2019t get through to 911. He said Dudley was flown to a hospital in Boise and remained there Monday with serious injuries, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot, man,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cIt\u2019s daunting, to say the least, to even try to gather the scope of all this. It\u2019s been absolute chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Dudley was \u201ckind of like my right hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunman left local college before graduating<\/p>\n

Williams attended the College of Southern Idaho from August 2022 and December 2023, according to the school\u2019s president, L. Dean Fisher. He didn\u2019t graduate or earn a certificate from the school, which has about 10,000 students.<\/p>\n

Williams served in the student senate but was unanimously impeached by his fellow senators in February 2023. Moseley, who served as the senate pro-tempore at the time, said Williams was ousted because he wasn\u2019t very active or engaged in student government.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press reporters Christopher Weber and Jamie Stengle contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[392904,392907,4219,392906,57,4222,51,13673,13670,298841,175956,2936,392905,391292,50,3677,392908,52,362821,61],"class_list":["post-979081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chad-williams","tag-christopher-claunch","tag-crime","tag-elijah-moseley","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-headlines","tag-id-state-wire","tag-idaho","tag-james-palmer","tag-josh-palmer","tag-law-enforcement","tag-marcus-scott","tag-matthew-hicks","tag-news","tag-shootings","tag-terry-dudley","tag-top-stories","tag-twin-falls","tag-u-s-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034720262154267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}