For more than an hour at Robb Elementary School, nearly 400 armed law enforcement officers stood by while a gunman carried out one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. Children bled. Teachers died. And chaos reigned as leadership collapsed.
In the aftermath, prosecutors attempted to do what politicians and bureaucrats often do best—find a single individual to blame for a failure that spanned multiple agencies and hundreds of personnel.
On Wednesday night, a Texas jury rejected that strategy outright.
After seven hours of deliberation, jurors acquitted former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer Adrian Gonzales on all 29 counts of child endangerment. The verdict closed the first criminal case tied to the botched law enforcement response at Robb Elementary.
Gonzales had been charged for his actions during the earliest moments of the May 24, 2022 massacre that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers—the worst school shooting in Texas history.
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