Trial begins for officer accused of failing to protect children during Uvalde school shooting [View all]
Source: AP
By VALERIE GONZALEZ
Updated 11:00 PM CST, January 4, 2026
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman.
Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde schools officer, faces 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in a rare prosecution of an officer accused of not doing more to stop a crime and protect lives.
The teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in one of deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Nearly 400 officers from state, local and federal law enforcement agencies responded to the school, but 77 minutes passed from the time authorities arrived until a tactical team breached the classroom and killed the shooter, Salvador Ramos. An investigation later showed that Ramos was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the months leading up to the attack.
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