Jurors hear active shooter training testimony in former Uvalde school officer trial
Jan 12, 2026
The trial of a Texas police officer charged in the halting of law enforcement response to the attack on Robb Elementary heads into a second week on Monday.
Adrian Gonzales faces multiple counts of child abandonment or endangerment for his response to Robb Elementary in May 2022.
Jurors on Mo
nday heard from three Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers who responded to Robb Elementary in various capacities of crime scene processing.
Texas Ranger Scott Swick told jurors what’s expected of an officer when asked by prosecutors if he would stay by his car during an active shooter at a school.
“I would not,” Swick said. “I would make the best decision I could and go towards the shots.”
Defense attorneys argued that Gonzales took action by arriving first at Robb Elementary, being among the first to enter the school and taking gunfire in a hallway.
However, prosecutors are asking jurors to consider criminal liability for Gonzales for not acting decisively when a Robb Elementary employee told him where the shooter was while still outside the school.
Texas Ranger Roberto Montalvo Jr. told jurors it’s incumbent on any law enforcement officer to go towards gunfire and not wait for backup or more protection.
“If zero protection is all you got, you go in,” Montalvo said. “There’s some officers that possibility could respond from their house on an active shooter and they’re not carrying any level 4 or level 3 protection,” Montalvo said. “Any responding officer, it’s what you have at the time.”
Testimony resumes Tuesday for what is scheduled to be a two-week trial that began on Jan. 5.
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