Overview
- Jurors in Corpus Christi heard detailed accounts from teachers, parents, medical staff and law enforcement, including testimony from aide Meloyde Flores that she pointed out the gunman to Officer Adrian Gonzales as he paced near the school.
- Prosecutors played Gonzales’s Texas Rangers interview in which he said he never saw the shooter because he responded to the south side of the building as gunfire erupted in the parking lot.
- A retired SWAT trainer testified that officers should move to stop the killing without waiting for backup, while the defense argued that real-world chaos and risk complicate solo entry.
- Gonzales has pleaded not guilty to 29 child endangerment counts tied to the May 24, 2022 attack that killed 19 students and two teachers, and the trial was moved to Nueces County.
- The proceedings follow a DOJ report citing a 77-minute delay with nearly 400 officers on scene; only Gonzales and former schools police chief Pete Arredondo face charges, and Arredondo has no trial date.