FirstAlerts
Mass Casualty Incidents

Officials give update on August 1 shooting; reports conflict on location

Police in Twin Falls named an off-duty trooper killed in the attack, while separate reports place a shooting in Asheville, N.C., and in Reiger Park, Gauteng; the event remains open and developing.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m. ET

More on this incident

Law enforcement officials held a press conference to update the public on a shooting that took place on August 1, 2026, according to KMVT. The news outlets reporting on the shooting place it in different locations, and none of the accounts is better supported than the others. KMVT reports , ; WLOS reports , ; and eNCA reports , in . The discrepancy is unresolved, and this report does not choose between them. The outlets also describe the location at different levels of precision. WLOS and eNCA identify it only by , which is the more widely supported description; KMVT alone names a specific , an In-N-Out restaurant and drive-through. Casualty figures vary by source as well. WLOS reported people killed and injured. eNCA reported a mass shooting in Reiger Park on a Friday night in which police officers and civilians were killed. Each figure is given as its outlet reported it; the accounts have not been reconciled. Police Chief Matthew Hicks identified one of those killed as Austin James, whom he described as a former police officer and State Trooper. "Mr. James ran towards the sound of gunfire coming from the In-N-Out drive-through rather than away from danger, and his actions are courageous and commendable," Hicks said. He added: "This off-duty trooper's heroic actions started inside the restaurant with him exchanging gunfire through the suspect at the window." Family members — including grandfather Marvin Brewer and sister Kenairiah Davis — identified Marques Davis Jr., 24, as a victim, according to WLOS and KMVT. Hicks said he would not name the person responsible. "After the acts of mass violence, the person responsible should not become the lasting identity of this tragedy," he said, adding that the incident "should not be remembered by his name, and we will not contribute to any attention or notoriety or recognition that he may have sought by committing this action." eNCA reports that a suspect or suspects are being sought and that no one has been identified. No official quoted by any of the outlets has stated a cause or motive. Hicks said fire and EMS personnel "arrived quickly and without hesitation or concern for their own personal safety," and that "Over 150 first responders from 19 agencies worked together to secure the scene, search buildings, locate victims, protect citizens, and stop the threat on August 1st." Agencies named as responding include the Police Department, the County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, fire and EMS, and the South African Police Service. Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni said: "Currently we have lost the young constables of which is very sad for the South African Police Service. We have currently deployed maximum resources within this area and it will continue so that we can be in a position to stabilize but we are not going to rest up until we get those people who are responsible for what happened." Premier Panyaza Lesufi said: "What they have to do is to track down the perpetrators, wherever they are. My argument is very simple. You attack policemen, you are taking the state." Reiger Park ward councillor Edith Klaasen said: "We've been crying out for help for such a long time. I am very hurt. This cannot be normal." KMVT reports that tips, video or photos can be submitted to the FBI through a link provided in its article; no phone number or address was given. This story is developing and figures may be revised.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Sources

Revision history

  1. Version 411 Aug 2026, 07:33current

    Restructured to lead with the best-supported August 8 South Bend shooting and the SBPD-attributed three-injured figure, added WNDU's block-level location and witness appeal, and added the SBPD/Crime Stoppers tip line alongside the FBI submission route.

  2. Version 311 Aug 2026, 03:19

    Added South Bend (Eddy Street, three injured, 1 a.m. Saturday) and Milwaukee (double shooting near 21st and Pierce) reporting, expanded the injury-figure range to include WISN and ABC 57, and added the newly named responding agencies.

  3. Version 211 Aug 2026, 00:57

    Reduced the suspect's name to a single sentence: it now appears only once, in the sentence attributing the arrest attempt to Sheriff Judd Grady. Subsequent references use "the man" and "the suspect." Split the Florida material into its own paragraph so the single naming is not carried across clauses. All facts, attributions, conflicts (injured 7 vs 1; dates August 1 / August 8 / August 6; cities Reiger Park, Boksburg / Twin Falls / Asheville / Golden; states Gauteng / Florida / Idaho / N.C.; venue and granularity; death manner; suspect status) and the exact address 17691 W. Colfax Ave. are unchanged.

  4. Version 19 Aug 2026, 05:53current

    First published.

  5. Version 111 Aug 2026, 00:53current

    First published.

  6. Version 19 Aug 2026, 05:54

    First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.