Three people were killed and two wounded in a shooting on Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out Burger on Blue Lakes Boulevard in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Those figures come from Joshua Palmer, the city's public information officer, Boise State Public Radio reported. Palmer said he expects the number to be higher as the investigation continues.

We are attributing that count carefully because it is early and the official accounts do not yet line up. Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks told reporters he "could not provide an exact number of people killed or the number of people injured," ABC7 reported. The city spokesman gave numbers; the police chief did not. Both were speaking on Saturday.

What police have said

The man believed to have carried out the shooting was found dead near the scene, Boise State Public Radio reported. Police have not determined his identity.

"We are working to try to ascertain his identity and the motivations," Hicks said. He described "a very chaotic scene" and said that "we have literally hundreds of people that were in some way, shape or form in the area," all of whom investigators are working through.

Hicks also said, plainly, that "the threat to the community is over."

No victims have been named. No motive has been offered. Nothing has been said publicly about how the shooting began or how it ended.

The response

Roads across Twin Falls were closed, including the Perrine Bridge, which carries traffic between the city and Interstate 84. St. Luke's Magic Valley hospital issued a critical alert urging people to stay away unless they had an emergency, and the St. Luke's system sent alerts of its own.

The FBI offered assistance to local police, ABC7 reported. Businesses in the surrounding commercial area were locked down during the response, and a shelter-in-place instruction was later lifted.

The company

In-N-Out's chief operating officer, Denny Warnick, issued a short statement: "We are heartbroken. Our prayers go out to our Customers, our Associates, and all of their families."

The chain was founded in Baldwin Park, in Los Angeles County, in 1948, and remains a Southern California institution. It has been opening restaurants in states well outside its original footprint, and the Twin Falls location had been open only a short time. ABC7 described it as newly opened.

That is the only reason this appears in a Los Angeles paper, and it is a thin reason. The story is not about a hamburger chain. Three people went to lunch in an Idaho city of about 55,000 and did not come home, and two more were hurt.

What we do not know

Almost everything that matters.

Not the names of the dead. Not the name of the man police believe killed them. Not why. Not whether the toll will rise, though the city expects it to. Early accounts of shootings are routinely revised, sometimes substantially, and the two official sources here already differ on whether a number can be given at all.

We will update this as police release verified information. As of Saturday evening Pacific time, the above is what has been said on the record.