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The motorist who’d been cut off by Davis was Ivory Jack Tidwell, a U.S. Navy sailor returning home with his wife, Pamela, after a family reunion. Tidwell became irate with Davis and sped up to catch him. To Tidwell’s surprise, the reckless driver pulled over to the shoulder and stopped, allowing Tidwell to pull up alongside him. Through the open window on his wife’s side of the vehicle, Tidwell cussed out the errant driver.

Davis responded by pointing a two-inch .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver at Tidwell and his wife. Desperate to escape, Tidwell tricked Davis by claiming that a vehicle approaching from behind was a California Highway Patrol car. Davis fell for the ruse and told Tidwell to “Git!” Tidwell sped away down the highway and was relieved to see he had not been followed. He soon found a phone at a service station on Violin Canyon Road and reported the incident to the Highway Patrol at 23:36, giving the license plate and description of the car and driver. One minute later, Officers Roger D. Gore and Walter C. Frago, Unit 78-8, were notified by dispatch about the misdemeanor brandishing incident.⁹