'A sea of panic': Idaho pastor describes escaping In-N-Out shooting
To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News 2 app. Example video title will go here for this video TWIN FALLS, Idaho — "A sea of panic." That's how one diner at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, described the immediate aftermath after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant, killing three people and injuring several others . Glenn Kirby, a local Twin Falls pastor, was leaving the restaurant as shots rang out Saturday afternoon. "We were just standing at the door, talking to the people on our way out," Kirby recalled. "As we were just telling them 'goodbye,' (.) people started coming up: 'Gun, gun!' That's when everybody ran, including us." Kirby said he was only feet from the shooter, later identified by police as 24-year-old Chad Williams . There were hundreds of people around there in the restaurant—coming, leaving the restaurant, and so on—literally, hundreds of people. Reality is, it takes a while to recover from something like this," Kirby said. "We remember Columbine.
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The gunman took his own life after the shooting, according to police. "That's where we begin to hear the 'pop, pop, pop.pop, pop, pop' of the gun," Kirby said. "So we're probably about 15 feet away from the shooter when we ran out of the entrance, the main entrance of the restaurant." Kirby said there were hundreds of people trying to escape the area Saturday, and surrounding businesses went on lockdown. "We were just in a sea of panic.
