A coworker dragged a wounded young woman across the parking lot, staying by her side until paramedics arrived. Days later, her family confirmed she never made it — and revealed what she had been working toward.
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A mass shooting outside a newly opened In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, left three people dead and several more wounded over the weekend. Among the victims was a 23-year-old employee whose story has now torn through social media, as friends, coworkers, and strangers try to make sense of what happened.
Her family has since come forward with details about who she was, what she loved, and the goal she was working toward before her life was cut short. But her mother has also had to speak up for a very different reason.
Witness accounts from the scene paint a wild picture of brave bystanders and fleeing crowds, but the story behind one fallen worker hits hardest. From her career ambitions to an appalling internet scheme that forced her grieving mother to step forward, the full picture is finally unraveling. | Source: Facebook/ashleygaribay
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The Shooting and Its Victims
On August 1, 2026, the newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, looked like any other location in the chain. Workers in their red aprons and paper hats moved through the lunch rush, serving fries and welcoming customers through the door.
The restaurant had been open for barely a week. It was the company's 441st location, according to an Instagram announcement, and had drawn steady crowds since its debut. Twin Falls sits roughly 130 miles southeast of Boise, in a stretch of the city's north side packed with hotels, retailers, and restaurants.
It's the kind of place residents and travelers pass through every day without a second thought. That changed just before 2:30 p.m., when a young man walked in carrying a gun.
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Three people were killed. One of them was 59-year-old Christopher Claunch, known to friends as "Toph," a man who had spent the past two years dedicated to helping others get sober after overcoming his own struggle with alcoholism.
Claunch worked at Renaissance Ranch Recovery Center in Rupert, the same facility that had once helped him find sobriety. A spokesperson for his family said Claunch had "a magnet" quality that drew people struggling with addiction toward him, and that helping them was the brightest part of his day.
His sister, Kimberly Castaneda, told reporters that Claunch had lived in Idaho for roughly 30 years but never lost his California roots — he made a point of stopping at In-N-Out every time he visited the coast. He'd planned to wait out the opening-week crowds at the new Twin Falls location, she said, never expecting it would be the last place he'd go.
