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A shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon left multiple people dead and others injured, police said. The shooter was among the dead, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said in a news conference.
“We believe the threat to the community is over,” Hicks said. He added that he did not yet know exactly how many were killed or wounded, and officials were still in the process of notifying next of kin. “It was a very chaotic scene.”
A Saturday shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, with police confirming the shooter was among the deceased and the community threat is over.
Before the news conference, Twin Falls County Commissioner Brent Reinke said Sheriff Jack Johnson had told him five people were hurt. The shooting took place near a busy shopping area in Twin Falls.
Reinke, who is also former prison chief for the Idaho Department of Corrections, said he learned of the incident just before 4 pm.
Multiple agencies responded. Twin Falls police advised people to avoid the area as they closed roads. St. Luke’s Magic Valley spokesperson Taylor Marschner said in a statement that the medical centre was “working closely with law enforcement and emergency responders as they manage the situation”.
Twin Falls, a city of about 56,000 people, is about 205 kilometres southeast of Boise and about 120 kilometres north of the Nevada border.
