Overview
- Melodye Flores told jurors she saw the shooter hop the fence and repeatedly pointed his path toward the fourth-grade building to an arriving officer she took to be Adrian Gonzales, saying he paced by his vehicle as shots were fired.
- Gonzales’ lawyer challenged Flores’ recollection, highlighting inconsistencies about the officer’s appearance and patrol car and suggesting she may have misremembered details in the chaos.
- Jurors watched Gonzales’ interview with a Texas Ranger from the day after the attack, where he said he waited for cover before entering; prosecutors noted he had taught an active-shooter course two months earlier.
- Teachers Arnulfo Reyes, Elsa Avila and Erin Robin gave wrenching accounts of being shot, sheltering students and lengthy waits for rescue during an attack that killed 19 children and two teachers and ended 77 minutes after it began.
- An emotional outburst by a victim’s sister led the judge to remove her and warn of a possible mistrial, as the Corpus Christi proceedings continue with Gonzales facing 29 counts of child endangerment.