Watch: Hero Armed Civilian Shoots It Out With Idaho Gunman
We're learning more about the Saturday afternoon shooting out at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger that has reportedly left three people dead and several others injured, including the fact that an armed civilian may have engaged the gunman as he rampaged around the restaurant's parking lot.
As RedState's Nick Arama reported, law enforcement responded to an incident in one of Twin Falls, Idaho’s busiest commercial areas. A spokesman for the city confirmed the shooter was deceased and shelter-in-place orders had been lifted.
“We believe that the threat to the community is over,” said Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks, adding that the suspect “was nearby on the scene there, and we are working to try to ascertain his identity and the motivations behind that.”
And it looks like police may have gotten a bit of help from a private citizen armed with a pistol.
Witness Lane Koehn told one media outlet that he was waiting at a nearby stoplight when he saw someone with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive-thru area of the In-N-Out. Koehn also saw the armed civilian shoot it out with the gunman.
He also saw some of the carnage.
He then saw someone in an In-N-Out uniform drag a person, also uniformed, bleeding from a gunshot wound in her chest across the parking lot. The employee, Koehn and the man with the pistol stayed until paramedics arrived for her.
“She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know. I hope she made it,” Koehn said.
Another video of the incident that was taken from a nearby vehicle shows a man in a dark T-shirt and blue pants moving near two parked Teslas before aiming what appears to be a handgun at one of the cars.
Two shots ring out in quick succession, with a visible muzzle flash accompanying each discharge.
The man then lowers the weapon and briskly walks away before breaking into a run across the parking lot, still carrying the firearm.
The person filming can be heard whispering, “Oh my gosh” moments before the shots.

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