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As Officer Alleyn was moving, Twining climbed into the Pontiac and fished around in the back seat for a second 1911A1 pistol of Colt’s manufacture. As he was doing this, Officer Alleyn reached his position at the door of 78-8, and, apparently, having forgotten that he had already done so in the stress of the moment, racked the slide of the shotgun again to chamber a round. This ejected an unfired round of buckshot onto the ground, which was discovered later during the post-shooting investigation.¹⁹

Officer Alleyn fired two rounds of Western Super-X buckshot at Twining while he was inside the Pontiac arming himself with the second 1911A1 pistol. One of the pellets from these two shells penetrated the rear window of the Pontiac and, having spent its energy in doing so, struck Twining in the forehead. The pellet did not significantly wound him, but Twining would later complain that he had a “terrible headache” from the “hunk of buckshot in my scalp.” The wound “hurt like hell” and angered him, but while it made him bleed, it would not slow him down during the fight. (Refer again to ssss1.)²⁰