GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Meet The Hero The Internet Is Saying Stopped The Idaho Falls Shooter

By now, you’ve no doubt seen the news about the horrible shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Idaho Falls.

If not, details here:

NEW DETAILS: Three people were killed and several others were injured in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon. In-N-Out confirmed that at least one of those killed was a restaurant employee. https://t.co/fPAMXe5Lzr pic.twitter.com/bcEvlxD4Fd

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 2, 2026

But what you might not have heard about is the Good Guy With A Gun HERO who may have saved the day.

And that’s because the MSM will never allow the “good guy with a gun” narrative to be published, as this guy accurately points out:

So it’s a good thing you have WLT Report!

I will say upfront that I do not have independent confirmation on this, but the Internet is convinced that a man named Jordan Salinas was on site when the shooting happened and stepped in to send some bullets back the other way.

Here he is in a prior unrelated video practicing and training:

This is the hero that confronted the In-N-Out gunman.

Meet Jordan Salinas.

Total badass 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Uc0BTHxClu https://t.co/OzEnZHyzHx

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 2, 2026

And while I don’t have independent confirmation this is Salinas in this video, this video is real from the shooting yesterday and it does show a good guy seemingly firing back and it does look like the frame and even shooting style perfectly matches Salinas:

🚨 JUST IN: This HERO is being praised nationwide after he got out to fire his gun at the active shooter in Twin Falls, Idaho, catching the criminal OFF GUARD and likely saving lives

FEARLESS PATRIOT.

That American deserves a medal! 👏🏻🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/XmWEVv6q3s

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 2, 2026

I can also confirm that this post from his Facebook page from two years ago is real:

What a hero!

Total badass, we could use a lot more Jordan Salinas’ in the world.

And I can also confirm this associated YouTube video is real:

Same guy?

Looks like it to me:

2 years ago, Jordan "The Fearless Patriot" Salinas posted on Facebook "train like your life depends on it because God forbid, one day it might"

Today he helped save the lives of countless civilians from an active shooter at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho

what's chilling is… pic.twitter.com/L6VdayuDwx

— Jack Duval🌊 (@jackduval) August 2, 2026

More here:

Yesterday an unhinged gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out in Idaho, killing 2 and wounding 7.

In the middle of the attack, this man stepped up and drove away the murderer with his own gun.

This saved countless lives.

Hero. pic.twitter.com/tgStcqp5P1

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 2, 2026

Grok reports the man appears to be Salinas and that multiple reports say he was not hit and not hurt:

Reports indicate Jordan Salinas was not hit and is unharmed.

The video in that @EricLDaugh post is mainly a short montage of his prior firearms training (desert range work with rifles/pistols, tactical gear, American flags, etc.), mixed with some overlaid or side-by-side clips that appear to be from the actual incident (a man in a hat with a handgun near bushes/building).

In circulating incident footage of the armed civilian (widely identified online as Salinas), he can be seen briefly stumbling or dropping lower and taking cover in nearby bushes before getting back up and continuing to move/engage. That movement is what can look like “getting hit and going down.” Multiple accounts describe it as tactical cover or a reaction during the exchange of fire, not an injury.

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Social media reports and posts consistently state he survived without injury, remained active (including helping move wounded people afterward in some accounts), and is fine.

Official authorities have not publicly named or confirmed the civilian’s identity or any injury details about him. One separate report mentioned another armed civilian possibly being shot in the arm, but that is not attributed to Salinas.

The shooter ultimately died from an apparent self-inflicted wound. Police have confirmed the suspect is deceased and there is no ongoing threat, with 3 killed and others wounded overall.

Identification of Salinas remains based on witness descriptions, matching photos/videos of his training gear/stance/hat, and social media rather than an official police statement.

Still though, even when a story is this good, leave it to the few poindexters out there to say “But I read he didn’t actually kill the shooter and the shooter died by a self-inflicted gunshot!”

Like this:

UGH.

Talk about missing the point entirely.

You have NO idea how many more deaths gunshots flying back in the other direction may have prevented.

It bought time.

It threw the shooter off his game.

It may have been the very thing that led the shooter to end it.

To be a poindexter in a moment like this is really next level.

I like this much more:

Exactly right!

Here’s more, from the Hindustan Times:

Viral videos showed a man engage the shooter at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, as the internet hailed the individual as a ‘hero’. The shooting has left multiple dead and many injured, and authorities have confirmed that the shooter is among those dead.

The identity of the shooter or his motives is not known yet. The shooter reportedly began firing with an AR-style rifle, when a man with a pistol engaged the shooter, as per witness Lane Koehn who spoke with The Guardian.

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Videos of the man engaging the shooter have gone viral on social media.

Idaho Twin Falls: Videos of man engaging shooter go viral
“This man is a HERO!!! He opened fire on an active shooter at a IN-N-OUT. He saved countless lives,” one wrote.