10 Yrs Ago Idaho Family Band Causes Walmart Mayhem; 1 Cop Shot

The 10th anniversary of one of the most bizarre and chaotic visits to a Walmart ever that involved a Boise area traveling musical family is coming up in just a few weeks. What ensued that Saturday turned a quiet, Western desert city of 13,000 into a media circus for several months afterward.

How this true story hasn't been turned into a film yet I don't quite understand. An Arizona Walmart was transformed into a Quentin Tarantino movie on the second day of spring in 2015, and it resulted in one police officer getting shot, several people bloodied and bruised, batons being used, pepper spray in the eyes, tasers deployed, and one fatality.

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A video of a portion of the insane, deadly, parking lot confrontation is available online; one of the family members was killed that day.

This unbelievable event has everything one would expect to find in a Hollywood script. It started with an employee assault, then carried over into bare-knuckle, parking lot brawling, several rounds spent, a police officer shot, and one of the suspects killed in what can only be described as an all-out, superstore calamity.

Did I mention the Idaho group who started it all--known as the Gaver family--was a traveling, religious musical act?

It all went down on Saturday, March 21, 2015. A video of a portion of the insane, deadly, parking lot confrontation is available online; one of the family members was killed that day. The police officer thankfully recovered from his injuries.