Stockton In-N-Out manager identified as victim in Idaho shooting

Ashley Garibay, a 23-year-old Stockton In-N-Out manager who traveled to Twin Falls to train workers, was among three people killed in Saturday’s shooting at a newly opened Idaho restaurant. Family members said Garibay had made the trip to help open the store, where she was doing the work she had hoped would carry her into management.

Garibay’s family described In-N-Out as her first job and said she dreamed of becoming a store manager. They also said she was a devoted family member, a loyal friend and a passionate employee who was known for helping open new locations. For a worker from Stockton, the trip to Idaho was part of the chain’s ordinary expansion routine. It became a crime scene instead.

Police identified the suspected shooter as 24-year-old Chad Williams, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities said his motive remained under investigation. The Twin Falls Police Department held news conferences and released updates as the victim count changed during the first hours after the attack. Reports said three people were killed and seven others were injured, with early counts varying as information developed.

Another victim identified in the shooting was Christopher Claunch, 59. His sister, Kimberly Castaneda, described him in media reports as a fun-loving “goofball” who helped others with sobriety. The presence of both a young restaurant manager and a middle-aged community member among the dead underscored how a public-facing workplace became the site of sudden violence.

Some reports said an armed bystander, later identified as Jordan Salinas, and an off-duty state trooper helped distract or return fire at the gunman, actions authorities credited with slowing the attack. That detail placed the response inside the same crowded commercial space where Garibay had gone to train employees, highlighting how ordinary retail workers are now being forced to navigate emergency violence in the middle of shifts that should have been about service, not survival.

Garibay had left Stockton for a job that tied her to a family-run brand and to a new store opening in Twin Falls. Instead, her death joined a grim pattern that now reaches into counters, dining rooms and other public-facing workplaces across the country.