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Heroic Bystanders Confront Gunman in Deadly Twin Falls In-N-Out Shooting | Crime Alert 08.03.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. Severe details continue to emerge out of
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  Speaker 2: Twin Falls, Idaho, following a terrifying shooting at a newly
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  Speaker 2: opened in and out burger location that left three people
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  Speaker 2: dead and seven others wounded. Authorities officially identified the gunmen
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  Speaker 2: as twenty four year old Chad Williams. Investigators report that
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  Speaker 2: Williams open fire Saturday inside the restaurant, fatally shooting an
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  Speaker 2: employee and a customer before dying from a self inflicted
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  Speaker 2: gunshot wound. According to Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks,
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  Speaker 2: dispatchers received multiple emergency calls while screams and gunshots echoed
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  Speaker 2: in the background. Chief Hicks described the initial response.
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  Speaker 3: Multiple nine on one calls were received by the Twin
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  Speaker 3: Falls City Communications Center. Dispatchers could hear screaming and reports
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  Speaker 3: of gunshots in the background. Officer Smart Apartment, along with
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  Speaker 3: officers from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, all
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  Speaker 3: convert to the incident.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Hicks revealed that the tragic incident could have resulted
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  Speaker 2: in far more casualties if not for the rapid intervention
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  Speaker 2: of two individuals on scene an off duty state trooper
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  Speaker 2: and an armed citizen confronted Williams, returning fire and driving
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  Speaker 2: the suspect away from additional patrons inside the restaurant. Williams
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  Speaker 2: was found dead near the exterior of the establishment. Chief
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  Speaker 2: Hicks publicly commended the heroic efforts of both the off
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  Speaker 2: duty officer and the brave citizen.
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  Speaker 3: We want to take a moment and commend the actions
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  Speaker 3: of the off duty officer and the citizen and their
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  Speaker 3: heroic action to stop this incident. We believe their actions
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  Speaker 3: helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties.
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  Speaker 2: In total, three people died and seven others suffered injuries
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  Speaker 2: in the shootout. Twin Fall City spokesperson Josh Palmer previously
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  Speaker 2: confirmed that two injured victims have been released from the hospital,
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  Speaker 2: while three remain unstable condition and two in critical condition.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Hicks characterized the tragedy as one of the most
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  Speaker 2: chaotic situations his department has ever encountered in their careers.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation has expanded to include state and federal partners,
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  Speaker 2: with FBI Salt Lake City Special Agent and Charge Robert
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  Speaker 2: Bowles confirming full federal support.
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  Speaker 4: We have committed the full weight of our resources to
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  Speaker 4: the Twin Falls Police Department to deploying every investigative and
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  Speaker 4: intelligence tool at our disposal. Our evidence response teams and
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  Speaker 4: victim services specialists are also on the ground, working tiresly
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  Speaker 4: to support both the investigation and those impacted.
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  Speaker 2: Sworn officers from the Meridian, Caldwell and Nampa Police Departments
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  Speaker 2: were brought in to assist the Idaho State Police with
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  Speaker 2: routine patrols in Twin Falls while local detectives process the scene.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. Six months after
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  Speaker 2: eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her home
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  Speaker 2: in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, Arizona, the leading sheriff
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  Speaker 2: is explaining why investigators recently ran at least two purported
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  Speaker 2: ransom notes. The missing woman is the mother of Today
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  Speaker 2: co host Savannah Guthrie. PMA County Sheriff Chris Nanos stated
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  Speaker 2: that authorities hope someone will recognize the writer's distinctive language
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  Speaker 2: in phrasing. Sheriff Nanos outlined why these written documents were released.
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  Speaker 1: There's a number of pieces of information in these notes
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  Speaker 1: that someone might just might jar someone to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that or the wording, the style of the
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  Speaker 1: writing is might jog somebody to kind of think about
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  Speaker 1: who would have written this, how was this done. We
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  Speaker 1: hope that by releasing the actual note we'll get some
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  Speaker 1: response from the community.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities. Note that it remains unclear whether both ransom notes
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  Speaker 2: were written by the same individual. On Saturday, marking six
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  Speaker 2: full months since the disappearance, Savannah Guthrie shared an emotional
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  Speaker 2: Instagram post stating her family has lived every moment in
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  Speaker 2: agony and despair while pleading the public for help. Pema
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed that detectives are actively reviewing
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  Speaker 2: tens of thousands of tips, videos, and forensic leads. Sheriff
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  Speaker 2: Nanos offered a direct message to the family.
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  Speaker 1: We're still here. We are not going away. If you
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  Speaker 1: could just see the team working, you would see the energy,
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  Speaker 1: the concern that they're fired up and will continue to
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  Speaker 1: work this case hard.
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  Speaker 2: Law Enforcement asks anyone who recognizes the wording or expressions
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  Speaker 2: to call the FBI tip line at one eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: call FBI or the Pma County Sheriff's Department at five
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  Speaker 2: two zero three five one forty nine hundred Finally, official
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  Speaker 2: court documents from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office detail and
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  Speaker 2: incident aboard a Carnival cruise ship where an allegedly intoxicated
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  Speaker 2: Georgia man attacked two young children playing tag. Forty four
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  Speaker 2: year old David Lawrence Crosby, the second of Sir and
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  Speaker 2: c Joy, Georgia, was arrested on July twenty seventh on
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  Speaker 2: two counts of felony child abuse. According to a probable
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  Speaker 2: cause affidavit, Crosby was running down a hallway aboard the
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  Speaker 2: Carnival Glory when he encountered three children. Crosby allegedly struck
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  Speaker 2: one child in the face, causing a bloody lip and
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  Speaker 2: head pain, before hitting a second child in the stomach.
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  Speaker 2: Security cameras captured the incident. When questioned by officers, Crosby
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  Speaker 2: stated he was heavily intoxicated and did not remember hitting
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  Speaker 2: the children. In a statement, Carnival Cruise Line confirmed their
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  Speaker 2: security team responded immediately confined Crosby to his cabin for
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  Speaker 2: the remainder of the voyage, assessed a code of conduct fee,
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  Speaker 2: placed him on a do not sale list, and turned
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  Speaker 2: him over to law enforcement. Crosby posted a twenty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Bond pleaded not guilty and has an August twenty fifth
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  Speaker 2: court date. For more crime and justice news, be sure
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  Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Sidney So Funny,