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Ex-Uvalde School Officer’s Trial Enters Second Week With New Witnesses Set to Testify

The case tests a rare bid to hold a responding officer criminally liable under Texas child endangerment law.

Overview

  • Testimony resumes in Corpus Christi as prosecutors continue arguing Adrian Gonzales failed to act in the shooting’s early moments.
  • Gonzales, 52, a former Uvalde school police officer, has pleaded not guilty to 29 child endangerment counts tied to students who were killed or injured.
  • Judge Sid Harle denied a defense mistrial request and told jurors to disregard a teacher’s DPS interview after disclosure concerns about her description of the gunman.
  • The state plans additional witnesses, with survivor Arnulfo Reyes and police training experts scheduled to appear as proceedings continue Monday.
  • Prosecutors say Gonzales abandoned active-shooter training, while the defense argues he never saw the gunman and helped evacuate students; a conviction would carry a state jail felony sentence of six months to two years per count.