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At some point, Twining left his position at the Pontiac and began a wide flanking movement to Officer Pence’s left, in order to get a better angle of fire on the officer. One witness reported that he yelled out a warning from across the parking lot that Twining was on the move, but his message was undoubtedly drowned out by the gunfire and the phenomena of auditory exclusion that was certainly affecting the officers. (Refer again to ssss1.)

Officer Pence had fired all six rounds from his revolver and it was now empty. Instead of attempting to reload the revolver in the position from where he was taking fire, he elected to move to the left rear corner of the patrol car and complete his reload there, where the car could offer greater protection. (Refer again to ssss1.) On his way to the rear of the car, he opened the cylinder of his Colt Python and dumped the six spent .357 Magnum cases on the ground, roughly abeam the rear door on the driver’s side of the vehicle.³⁸

As Officer Pence’s fire slackened off, Twining pressed the offensive, concealed by the shadows, and advanced along a line that would bring him wide and to the north of Unit 78-12, where he could flank and get a better shot at Officer Pence. The pattern of recovered spent cases suggests that Twining fired one round during the early portion of this movement. (Refer again to ssss1 and ssss1.)