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Less than three full minutes from the start of their response, the units came to a screeching halt and joined the fight, just as Davis and Twining reached their Pontiac in flight, having killed Officers Alleyn and Pence moments earlier.
The total time since Officers Gore and Frago first stopped the Pontiac was only four and a half minutes.
The first unit on scene was 78-16R, who stopped about three car lengths short of Unit 78-8, facing north and slightly east on The Old Road. Gun smoke still hung in the air as Officer Robinson exited the passenger side of the patrol car with a Remington 870 shotgun in hand, narrowly missing being struck by the last .45-caliber bullet from Twining’s handgun, which hit the door of the car after Twining took a shot at his fifth CHP Officer that night. (ssss1)42
Officer Robinson hadn’t seen Twining yet, however. The first man that he confronted was the escaping Mr. Kness, who pointed the way to the fleeing felons with one hand, while the other still clutched Officer Alleyn’s empty revolver.43 Officer Robinson crossed the ditch and leveled his Remington 870 shotgun over the top of the fence at the escaping Pontiac, too late to fire a shot. (ssss1). It was at this time that he saw the bloody Officer Alleyn, moving slightly on the ground in his green “Ike” uniform jacket, and he realized one of his fellow officers had been hurt.