“3 Dead, 7 Injured” - Tragic Idaho Shooter Faced a Civilian Hero

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
We all saw this video, we're like, what is going on here? I mean, this guy's just going nuts.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:07)
So explain this, who's this kid? This young guy?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:10)
This is some liberal redditor guy?

**Vinny Lingham** (0:12)
His name is Chad, of all names.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:13)
Yeah, so this guy is out there shooting. By the way, he ends up killing three people at In-N-Out, nine hospitalized, one of the, I think seven injured. Three of them are in a hospital right now, not doing well at all. This is at the Twin Falls, Idaho, Saturday afternoon on August 1st.
24-year-old gunman Chad Williams approached a crowded restaurant armed with an AR-style rifle. Eyewitnesses reported Williams opened fire near the drive-thru lane. An armed civilian in a vehicle engaged Williams with a handgun, forcing the suspect to retreat towards an adjacent area where he took his own life. Among the wounded, two victims were treated and released from St. Luke Magic Valley Emergency Department. Three remain in stable condition, and two remain in critical condition. In-N-Out owner Lindsay Snyder had to issue an statement because one of the employees that was killed was their employee. This was at 2:29 p.m. when the 911 call was made. 233 armed civilian engaged shooter in the drive-thru lane. Shooter flees behind the building. 2.36, two falls. Police arrived. Suspect found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. And 6 p.m. authorities left local shelter-in-place orders after confirming no secondary threat. So Vinny, there's a story that came out about the fellow that came that went up against him. Do you want to tell us about it?

**Vinny Lingham** (1:32)
So Jordan Salinas, we have to give him a shout-out because in a world where we never give the heroes any credit, no major media networks are going to talk about him. This guy's 35 years old. He's a healthcare worker, full-time caregiver of his brother who's in a wheelchair.
Bully, this statement doesn't get more American than this. He was riding horseback with his girlfriend the morning of the shooting. They pulled in to In-N-Out for lunch, and he saw what was going on, and this guy went in to full-on hero mode. And this is, again, Pat, this is what I think is the type of person we should be recognizing.
He fought back, he started shooting at this guy, and he kept him at bay, so think about it. This guy could be going around shooting more people in the parking lot. He's engaged with Jordan. Jordan keeps him down. The cops show up, they start engaging, and this guy, like a coward, shoots himself and takes his own life. And it's always crazy with the mainstream media, when it's the other side. They always want to point out when the bad things happen, but not one story, except what on X about the hero, and maybe on Fox. I saw the New York Post. This guy steps up, and he kills this dude. And two years, this is, brother, this is his Facebook post, guys, from two years prior. Look at what he writes at the end. He says, train like your life depends on it, because God forbid one day it might. Stay free, stay safe, and stay frosty. This is the type of dude, if you're unarmed and you're chilling at In-N-Out, and some psycho starts shooting, that's who you want. You want some guy that's out in the middle of the desert, by himself, just training for that type of stuff. So God bless him, and I'm happy that he was there, Pat, because a lot more people could have been killed if it wasn't for this guy putting suppressive fire down.

**Tom Ellsworth** (3:07)
Tom, this is what happens when you have a trained populace that is sensible and sane with Second Amendment.
Idaho is ranked 50th for armed robbery muggings. Why do you think that is? Jordan, because there's a different lottery in Idaho called You Have a 61% Chance of Encountering an Armed Citizen. And would you like to maybe send up a few of the muggers from Sacramento and send them to Idaho?
Hey guys, go mug a few people in Idaho. There's a 61% chance you're going to encounter an armed citizen or the people around them to save them. 61% chance they're armed. What do you think of the lottery? I think I'm going to go back and buy lottery fraud tickets in Sacramento. Good choice. That's what's going on. I'm not making light of the situation.
I'm using that to make a point. Here you have Idaho is ranked also, ready for this, the second or third safest state on multiple vectors and vectors of analysis by safehome.org. And then people like to say, oh, but so many people have guns. And then they have the lobby likes to say, Idaho has the weakest gun laws. Well, maybe some other states need some weak gun laws. If you're going to call them weak and similar to Idaho, because this was a trained citizen putting himself in peril to come out and assist. And then an off-duty officer was there. And so I am sickened that I want to know what drove this kid to it. Once again, the mental health crisis in the country. Let's go talk about that. When did we know? What could have been done? But when it came down to stopping what was going on before it got even more tragic and more worse, the citizen stepped in.