On a Saturday afternoon in Twin Falls, Idaho, the ordinary rhythms of weekend commerce were shattered when a man armed with an AR-style rifle opened fire near a busy shopping center, killing two civilians before police ended the threat within the hour. The gunman, too, was killed — leaving three dead in total and a community suspended between relief that the danger had passed and the deeper uncertainty of not yet knowing why it began. As investigators work to identify the shooter and reconstruct his motives, Twin Falls joins a long and sorrowful American inventory of public spaces transformed,
Three dead in Idaho shopping center shooting; gunman neutralized by police
Two civilians killed and at least two others injured in the shooting; gunman also killed by police response.