BREAKING: Uvalde Cop Adrian Gonzales Trial Begins — First Officer On Scene Charged With 29 Counts After 77-Minute Police Failure
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jury selection began today in one of the most consequential police accountability trials in American history. Former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales is facing 29 felony counts of child endangerment for his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, 2022.
What makes this case unprecedented: Gonzales was the first law enforcement officer to arrive at Robb Elementary — before the shooter even entered the building. A coach on scene told investigators she pointed toward the gunman and begged Gonzales to stop him. According to CNN's timeline, he had 59 seconds before the shooter walked into the school. He had been through multiple active shooter trainings and had even taught a course titled "Stop the Killing: Solo Response" just two months earlier.
According to his own statements to investigators, he never saw the shooter, never fired, and after briefly entering the hallway, stepped outside and "never went back." For 77 minutes, 376 officers from multiple agencies waited while a gunman remained in the classroom. Inside, 10-year-old Khloie Torres called 911 for 46 minutes begging for help.
This is the first time a Texas officer has been prosecuted under this child endangerment statute for alleged inaction during a school shooting. The only comparable case — Parkland resource officer Scot Peterson — ended in acquittal in 2023.
Gonzales has pleaded not guilty. His defense says he helped evacuate children. The families say he's a coward. Today, a jury begins deciding whether failure to act is a crime.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.3 | Adrian Gonzalez was the first officer on the scene at Rob Elementary School on May 24, |
| 0:13.8 | 22. Not one of the first, the first. According to the CNN analysis of surveillance footage, radio traffic, |
| 0:22.7 | and investigative records, he arrived in his marked patrol car more than a minute before the |
| 0:27.7 | shooter even entered the building at Yuvaldi. A coach running, falling, screaming, |
| 0:34.6 | pointed towards the fourth grade wing and told him a man in black was heading that way with a gun. |
| 0:42.9 | She told investigators, she begged him to do something. We need to stop him before he goes in, she recalled saying. |
| 0:52.7 | Based on CNN's timeline analysis, Gonzalves had 59 seconds before that shooter walked into the school. |
| 0:58.7 | He had 82 seconds before the gunman entered classrooms 111 and 112 and started shooting fourth graders with a rifle. |
| 1:07.0 | According to his own statements to investigators the following day, he never saw the shooter, never pursued him, and never fired a single round. |
| 1:21.6 | And today, nearly four years later, Adrian Gonzalez is standing trial charged with 29 counts of child endangerment, one for each of the 19 children killed, and the 10 who survived in those classrooms. |
| 1:34.4 | He has pled not guilty. |
| 1:37.8 | His defense says he was focused on getting kids out of the building. |
| 1:41.6 | The families say he failed them. |
| 1:44.8 | And the state of Texas is attempting something unprecedented, criminally prosecuting a police |
| 1:49.2 | officer for allegedly failing to act during a school massacre. |
| 1:53.4 | Good on you, Texas. |
| 1:55.2 | Good on you. |
| 2:00.8 | I've made several comments about this case online, well, tweets over the last couple of days, |
| 2:07.9 | talking about this trial that is about to begin, and we are going to be covering it for you |
| 2:13.3 | right here. I believe my comments have been somewhere along the lines of |
| 2:18.9 | he deserves a death penalty. |
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