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39. CHP Officer Harry Ingold recalls that, after the fight was over, Officer Pence was found slumped forward with his knees and face on the deck, the brim of his uniform hat trapped between the ground and his forehead. His hands were trapped under his body near the waist and not in sight. When Officer Pence’s torso was raised up, his revolver was found in his hands with the cylinder open and six rounds of live .357 Magnum ammunition in the cylinder, indicating that he had almost completed his reload before he was executed by Twining.

Anderson describes that Officer Pence had fumbled two of the six rounds during the reload and was able to recover one of them from the ground and load it in the revolver before he closed the cylinder, but it’s not clear how the number of fumbled cartridges was known, and other elements (number of loaded cartridges, cylinder closed, etc.) conflict with Officer Ingold’s clear recollection of an open cylinder with six cartridges. Massad Ayoob’s narrative, based on the CHP’s version, confirms the notion that Officer Pence was able to reload all six cartridges before he was executed.