Soon, [Jordan] Salinas heard police sirens and saw blue lights. He holstered his gun and helped direct officers toward where he last saw the shooter. He then walked back toward the In-N-Out and saw someone pulling a wounded employee from the restaurant.
The Twin Falls police chief later praised Mr. Salinas and another man who returned fire, an off-duty Idaho state trooper who has yet to be identified. The chief said the men had helped drive the gunman away and prevented more carnage. Others also praised their actions.
“There were a lot of heroes that day,” Asher Ridenour, an In-N-Out employee who was working during the shooting, said by text, “including all of the officers, civilians even co-workers who made attempts to help others.”
A third man, Austin James, a former police officer, also ran to confront the shooter. Although Mr. James was armed, he initially — and intentionally — did not draw his weapon, he said. He had feared being confused for the gunman. When Mr. James rounded a corner, he encountered Mr. Williams, who shot him in the upper arm, shattering his bone and severing an artery.
“He didn’t say or do anything,” Mr. James said in a text message from the hospital, where he has been since the shooting. “Just had a blank stare on his face.”
Once wounded, Mr. James said he drew his gun and tried to fire, but his gun was without a round in the chamber. He said he was trying to chamber a round when his wife and her friend — both emergency room nurses — found him and pulled him back to the car, where they began to treat his wounds.
— Nicholas Bogle-Burroughs in He Trained to Stop a Mass Shooting. When the Moment Came, He Was Ready.
“A third man, Austin James, a former police officer, also ran to confront the shooter. Although Mr. James was armed, he initially — and intentionally — did not draw his weapon, he said. He had feared being confused for the gunman. When Mr. James rounded a corner, he encountered Mr. Williams, who shot him in the upper arm, shattering his bone and severing an artery.”
This is not correct.
Austin ‘AJ’ Scott James is, according to police, an Idaho state trooper who was off duty at the time.
There was no ‘third man’. It was James and Salinas.
James did not initially draw his weapon. But did draw once hit, however, no round in the chamber.
Salinas says he and ‘another man’ were firing at the killer. This is where it gets confusing implying there was a ‘third man’, when in reality there wasn’t and was just was James and Salinas. What Salinas saw was James trying to chamber a round and the killer fleeing that location where he shot James when he realized James was armed and because the killer retreated from that location Salinas thought James had been firing thus forcing the killer to flee that spot because James had his gun out.
The context of the NYT piece is wrong and has some false information in it. They are attributing a ‘third man’ as if there was a ‘third man’ engaging the killer. The ‘third man’ would have been the killer if all with firearms were counted, but that’s not the context of the NYT article as their fabricated ‘third man’ was in the context of those that engaged the killer.
This NYT article was not correct and it mixed two different time frames, left out the part where James was identified as the ‘another man’ police talked about in an earlier briefing, invented a ‘third man’ engaging the killer, and wrongly attributed the law enforcement status of James.
See the part where it says > “The Twin Falls police chief later praised Mr. Salinas and another man who returned fire, an off-duty Idaho state trooper who has yet to be identified.” > this was earlier before the identity of that man was known. The NYT article skips over that this man was later identified as Austin James, but then goes on to invent a ‘third man’ and identifies him as James and ‘a former police officer’.
There was no ‘third man’ engaging the killer – and Austin James was not ‘a former police officer’, he is an Idaho state trooper who was off duty at the time.
Even when left wing media tries to cover a story correctly they get it wrong and have to insert a lie some place.