Uvalde Officer Adrian Gonzales On Trial: He Was First On Scene, Trained To Respond — And Allegedly Did Nothing
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The trial of former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales has begun in Corpus Christi, Texas. He's charged with 29 counts of child endangerment for his response to the Robb Elementary massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, 2022.
Here's what makes this case so infuriating: Gonzales was the first officer on scene. According to CNN's analysis, he arrived more than a minute before the shooter even entered the building. A coach told him where the gunman was heading. He heard the shots. And according to his own recorded statements to investigators, he never pursued the shooter, never fired a shot, and after briefly entering the building, stepped outside and "never went back into that hallway."
This wasn't a rookie cop. State records show Gonzales had nearly 11 years of law enforcement experience and had completed multiple active shooter trainings. Two months before the massacre, he was one of the instructors for a course that included a module called "Stop the Killing: Solo Response to Active Shooter Events."
While officers waited for 77 minutes, children inside the classroom called 911. Ten-year-old Khloie Torres stayed on the line for 46 minutes, whispering that her teacher was shot, that there were dead bodies, begging for police to come. They were already there.
Gonzales has pleaded not guilty. His attorney says he was focused on helping children escape. The families say he's a coward. The jury will decide if his alleged inaction was a crime. This episode breaks down every detail of what happened and what's at stake.
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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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