Twin Falls Police Video Traces In-N-Out Drive-Thru Shooting From First Shot to Trail

Three people were killed where they had stopped for burgers. That is the number that matters from Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026, when a gunman identified as Chad Williams, 24, opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger and turned a drive-thru lane, a dining area and the cars waiting in it into a crime scene ⁴⁵⁸⁹¹⁰. Early accounts put the wounded at seven, while a later police briefing headline put the figure at 10 wounded alongside the three dead, a discrepancy no source in the available file reconciles ³⁹¹¹. Williams fled to a nearby trail and died of a self-inflicted gunshot ⁴⁵⁸⁹¹⁰.

The clearest public record of how those numbers happened arrived almost a week later. On Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, the Twin Falls Police Department released surveillance and body-camera footage at a news conference, describing it as the most complete account yet of an attack that began in the drive-thru ²³⁴⁸. The date matters because accounts derived from auto-captioning that placed the shooting on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2026, are wrong. All of the reporting sources place the shooting on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 ⁴⁵⁹.

What the newly released camera views lock in is movement. The footage shows Williams holding a gun and approaching a car in the drive-thru lane, the first point of contact in a rampage that would then move beyond the window and the queued vehicles ². Investigators have described the material as tracking the gunman's path from that drive-thru beginning to the trail where he died, giving detectives a frame-by-frame sequence to work from rather than witness recollections alone ⁵. Police also released body-camera video alongside the store surveillance, adding the response as it unfolded to the record of the attack itself ²³⁴⁸.

The central confrontation captured in that release involves an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper who exchanged gunfire with the gunman during the attack ⁵⁸. That exchange is one of the reasons police and outside coverage have pointed to the video as more than a record of killing. It shows armed resistance inside a fast-moving scene where customers were trapped in vehicles and workers were pinned near the window and service areas ⁵⁸. The footage of the trooper, combined with body-camera views from responding officers, is now the basis for reconstructing who fired when and from where ²⁵⁸.

A second confrontation highlighted after the release centers on AJ Scott, described as a Northern California man and Antelope High graduate, whose actions confronting the gunman were singled out in coverage of the newly released video ⁷. Reporting on the release also points more broadly to armed citizens who engaged Williams alongside the off-duty trooper, a sequence that Fox News and Officer.com accounts describe as central to the attack path shown on camera ⁵⁸. The available sources do not provide a fuller biography or a minute-by-minute breakdown of Scott's movements, only that his confrontation is visible and was treated as an act of intervention once the video became public ⁷.

The dead numbered three. The reporting names Ashley Garibay, Dale Schultz and Christopher Claunch in connection with the police update on the case ⁹. Garibay is identified through the In-N-Out update as a worker, and earlier NBC reporting on the victims described one victim as an In-N-Out worker caring for customers, underscoring that staff were among those directly in the line of fire ⁹¹¹. Caption-generated spellings that rendered those names as Ashley Garb and Christopher Klontz appear to be transcription errors. The sourced reporting spells them Garibay and Claunch ⁹.

The wounded count requires a direct caution. Two formulations circulate in the file: three dead and seven wounded, and, in the headline of the local police-update report, 10 wounded and 3 dead ³⁹¹¹. No source in the file explicitly reconciles the gap, whether as an updated triage total, a difference between hospitalized and treated-and-released, or a briefing correction ³⁹. A reader should therefore treat the death toll of three as consistent across sources and the wounded total as reported differently by different accounts ³⁹¹¹.

What the video does not resolve, on this evidence, is motive. Authorities said on Friday, at the time of the release, that they were still investigating a motive, and none of the sources in the file supplies one ³⁸. The footage establishes route and action — approach in the drive-thru, shooting, confrontation, flight to a trail — but it does not by itself explain why Williams chose that restaurant on that Saturday ²³⁵. That remains an open investigative question rather than a settled narrative point ³⁸.

There are also limits that need to be stated plainly because auto-captioning added details the reporting file does not support. The research memo finds no mention in the provided sources of contemporaneous reports of a possible second gunman, and no mention of victims named Austin James or Christopher Klontz as spelled in the caption ³⁵⁸⁹. That does not prove what callers or officers said in the moment. It means those specific claims cannot be confirmed from the web sources supplied here and should not be repeated as fact ²³⁴⁵⁸⁹. The same applies to granular assertions about who was shot in which vehicle or in what order beyond the names and roles above, which are all the sourced file verifies ⁹¹¹.

Taken together, the release shifts the Twin Falls case from competing memories to a shared visual timeline. Before Aug. 7, the public understanding rested on police summaries and victim profiles. After Aug. 7, there is surveillance showing the gunman with a weapon approaching a drive-thru car, body-camera showing the police response, and documented exchanges involving the off-duty trooper and intervening citizens that investigators can measure against physical evidence ²³⁵⁸. The video does not answer every question, and the casualty-total language shows police communication itself was still settling. But it fixes the where and the how — a Saturday fast-food restaurant, an attack that started where drivers wait window to bumper, and a gunman who left that lot alive and was later found dead on a trail ²⁴⁵¹⁰.