Background
After failing to land jobs following their release from prison, Twinning and Davis met up again in Houston, and drove to Sacramento, California, where they failed in their attempt to rob banks. They then drove down to Los Angeles in a red 1964 Pontiac. En route to Los Angeles, they noticed construction along the highway in the mountainous area near Gorman and believed they could steal explosives from that site in order to commit a robbery.
Twinning and Davis rented an apartment in Long Beach. Soon after, they began observing an armored car delivering cash to Santa Anita Park. They devised a scheme to use explosives in order to rob it on a freeway offramp, and returned to the construction site to procure the explosives. Inside their red Pontiac, they had amassed numerous weapons, including handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Overall, they had twice as many weapons as the four CHP officers they would eventually face had in their two patrol cars.
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