Salinas, who cares for his wheelchair-bound brother full-time, told the Idaho Statesman that he took firearm training seriously after a shooting occurred at the Boise Towne Square mall five years ago. He worried that shooters would target a person in a wheelchair.
On Saturday, he saw the suspect near the In-N-Out drive-through window, shooting at nearby cars. Salinas fired at the suspect.
“He did not like it when bullets started firing both ways,” Salinas told the Idaho Statesman.
He told the news outlet that he wasn’t afraid during the shooting, thinking to himself “there’s a task that needs to be done, and we’re the ones who need to do it.” When officers responded to the scene, Salinas stepped back so that they could take over.
“My part,” he recounted thinking, “is done.”