前任的德州乌瓦尔迪，校警在拉莫斯进入之前，阿德里安·冈萨雷斯被告知枪手萨尔瓦多·拉莫斯的位置罗伯小学检察官在周二的开庭陈述中辩称，冈萨雷斯没有采取行动。
冈萨雷斯被控29项危害儿童罪，他被指控在混乱的应对过程中玩忽职守，疏于训练2022拍摄造成19名儿童和两名教师死亡。
这起案件标志着美国历史上第二次检察官试图追究执法人员对大规模枪击事件的刑事责任。冈萨雷斯的法律团队坚持认为他是替罪羊。
检察官比尔·特纳在他的公开辩论开始时声音轻柔，几乎要哭了。他的声明标志着检察官首次提出指控冈萨雷斯的理由，披露一名教师来枪手进入学校前与拉莫斯面对面，老师试图警告冈萨雷斯。
“她与枪手面对面，他向她开枪，她转身逃跑，当她转身逃跑时，她摔倒了。当她起床时，阿德里安·冈萨雷斯警官就在那里，”特纳说。“她说，‘他在那边。’她催促他去找他。"
特纳说，“他通过无线电说，‘有人开枪了，他穿着黑色衣服，他在停车场。’”"他知道自己在哪里，但是阿德里安·冈萨雷斯仍然在学校的南边."
特纳向陪审团讲述了那次遭遇后的悲惨几分钟——描述了冈萨雷斯在外面等待时拉莫斯开了几枪——特纳反复强调冈萨雷斯据称留在原地，而不是试图停止射击。
辩护律师尼科·拉胡德告诉陪审团，“纯粹的邪恶”于2022年5月24日访问了乌瓦尔迪，但表示给冈萨雷斯定罪不会伸张正义。
拉胡德认为，冈萨雷斯在那一刻做了他能做的一切，包括收集关键信息，疏散儿童和进入学校，并说冈萨雷斯根据他所掌握的信息采取行动。
拉胡德和他的搭档杰森·戈斯做了一个冗长的开场辩论，使用地图和时间代码向陪审团提供了冈萨雷斯行动的分分秒秒的视图。
“你知道，政府想让人们觉得他只是坐在那里。他不只是坐在那里——他用他当时所知道的做了他能做的，”拉胡德说。
拉胡德还呼吁控方计划向陪审团展示尸检照片。法官已经初步允许检察官展示这些图像，但保留保留照片作为证据的权利。
“他们真的想让你专注于这些照片，我希望他们不会-不是因为它伤害了我们-因为..它伤害了那边那些珍贵的人，”拉胡德指着画廊里的一些家庭和乌瓦尔迪社区成员说。
控方的第一个证人是吉尔伯特·利莫内斯，他是罗布小学附近一家殡仪馆的雇员，他作证说，当他意识到一名男子向学生开枪时，他感到非常恐慌。
“我看到他朝大楼的南端走去，然后从每扇窗户开始，只是随机地拿起枪朝窗户里面开枪，”他说。
在他作证的间隙，检察官播放了利莫内斯疯狂拨打911电话的部分内容。
“天哪，他正要开枪打他们。他在向人们开枪。哦，上帝，”利莫内斯告诉911。
利莫内斯描述说他看到了一场车祸，并试图帮助司机，但当他靠近时，司机开始向他开枪。他告诉陪审员，就在他开始向操场上的学生开枪之前，枪手“非常冷漠地”走向学校。
利莫内斯说，他目睹了一辆由Gonzales驾驶的白色汽车从Ramos身边驶过，错过了干掉持枪歹徒的机会。
“然后发生了什么?”一名检察官问道。
“然后我只记得他去教室，他开始一扇扇窗户射击，直到他走到他走进去的门口，”他作证说。
利莫内斯在盘问中承认，在枪击的前几分钟，其他警察错过了类似的反应机会。
“你在视频上看到，在某个时间点，那三名警察没有在校园里跟踪阿德里安，而是开车离开了?”拉胡德问道。
“正确，”利莫内斯说。
“你在视频中看到，他们是在阿德里安开车快速驶向学校后不久出现的?”他跟着。
“正确，”利莫内斯说。
尽管有近400名警察对枪击事件做出反应，但执法部门花了77分钟才发起反击，杀死了拉莫斯。冈萨雷斯是此案中仅有的两名被指控的警官之一，另一名是前乌瓦尔迪学校警察局长皮特·阿雷东多。
锡德·月读法官在周一令人激动的选拔过程后，陪审团坐满了人。数十名潜在的陪审员对警方的反应表示失望，超过100名陪审员要求回避，他们说他们不相信自己能够做到公平公正。
“他们只是在保护自己，而不是保护孩子，”一名被解雇的陪审员告诉法庭，其他人欢呼鼓掌表示同意。“我会牺牲自己去救他们，但他们没有。他们只是坐在那里。”
冈萨雷斯拒不认罪，他的律师认为他应该为更广泛的执法失败负责。在陪审团的选择过程中，一些人对悲剧发生后的几年里更多的警察没有被起诉表示失望。
“你是说这个人就是全部问题?你一个人扛在他肩上?”一名被解雇的陪审员说。“他们有多少人在那里?他们都应该和他坐在一起。”
冈萨雷斯去年被起诉，同时被起诉的还有枪击当天的现场指挥官Arredondo。Arredondo的审判被无限期推迟，原因是美国边境巡逻队精英战术小组的成员拒绝与检察官谈论他们当天的参与情况。
冈萨雷斯的案件在美国法律中是罕见的。
在…里2023，a佛罗里达陪审团宣告斯科特·彼得森无罪前布劳沃德县副警长，他被控疏忽照顾儿童和过失犯罪2018年马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中枪击案在佛罗里达州的帕克兰。彼得森的律师认为，他作为一名武装学校资源官的角色并不等同于证明佛罗里达州忽视儿童所需的看护职位，并且对枪击事件的反应因沟通不畅而混乱。
诺瓦东南大学的法学教授鲍勃·贾维斯认为，冈萨雷斯一案的起诉人可能会面临与彼得森一案同样的法律障碍。
“你真正想做的，”他说，“是争论...做一个懦夫是一种犯罪，这是非常非常困难的。”
Uvalde officer was told location of gunman but he failed to act, prosecutors say
FormerUvalde, Texas, school police officerAdrian Gonzales was alerted to gunman Salvador Ramos' location before Ramos enteredRobb Elementary School, but Gonzales failed to act, prosecutors argued in opening statements on Tuesday.
Gonzales -- who is charged with 29 counts of child endangerment -- is alleged to have neglected his duty and training during the chaotic response to the2022 shooting, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.
This case marks the second time in U.S. history that prosecutors have sought to hold a member of law enforcement criminally accountable for their response to a mass shooting. Gonzales' legal team maintains he's being scapegoated.
Prosecutor Bill Turner spoke softly and on the verge of tears at the start of his opening argument. His statement marked the first time prosecutors have provided their rationale for charging Gonzales, disclosing that a teachercameface-to-face with Ramos before the shooter entered the school, and the teacher tried to warn Gonzales.
"She's face-to-face with the gunman, and he fires on her, and she turns to run, and when she turns to run, she trips and she falls. And when she gets up, Adrian Gonzales, the police officer, is there," Turner said. "She says, 'He's over there.' She urges him to go get him."
"He gets on the radio and says, 'Shots are fired, he's wearing black, he's in the parking lot,'" Turner said. "He knows where he is, but Adrian Gonzales remains at the south side of the school."
As Turner walked the jury through the tragic minutes that followed that encounter -- describing the number of gunshots fired by Ramos as Gonzales allegedly waited outside -- Turner hammered at the point that Gonzales allegedly stayed where he was, rather than try to stop the shooting.
Defense attorney Nico LaHood told the jury that "pure evil" visited Uvalde on May 24, 2022, but said convicting Gonzales will not deliver justice.
LaHood argued that Gonzales did everything he could in that moment -- including gathering critical information, evacuating children and entering the school -- and said Gonzales acted on the information he had.
LaHood and his partner Jason Goss delivered a lengthy opening argument that used a map and time codes to provide the jury with a minute-by-minute view of Gonzales' actions.
"The government wants to make it seem like he just sat there, you know. He didn't just sit there -- he did what he could with what he knew at the time," LaHood said.
LaHood also called out the prosecution for planning to show the jury autopsy photos. The judge has preliminarily allowed prosecutors to show the images, but reserves the right to hold photos from entering evidence.
"They're going to really want you to focus on these photos, and I wish theywouldn't -- not because it hurts us --because .. it hurts those precious people over there," LaHood said, pointing to some of the families and Uvalde community members in the gallery.
The first witness for the prosecution was Gilbert Limones, an employee of a funeral home near Robb Elementary, who testified about the panic he experienced when he realized a man was firing toward students.
"I saw him walking towards the south end of the building and then started at every window and just randomly would just get the gun and shoot inside the windows," he said.
In between his testimony, prosecutors played portions of Limones' frantic 911 call.
"Oh my god, he is about to shoot them. He is shooting at the people. Oh, Jesus," Limones told 911.
Limones described seeing a car crash and trying to aid the driver, but as he approached, the driver began shooting at him. He told jurors that the gunman walked towards the school "very nonchalantly" just moments before he started shooting at students on a playground.
Limones said he witnessed a white car -- driven by Gonzales -- drive past Ramos, missing an opportunity to take out the gunman.
"And then what happened?" a prosecutor asked.
"And then I just remember him going to the classrooms, and he started shooting window by window until he got to the door where he walked in through," he testified.
Limones acknowledged on cross examination that other officers missed similar chances to respond in the few first minutes of the shooting.
"You saw on the video that at some point in time those three officers did not follow Adrian on the campus, they drove away?" LaHood asked.
"Correct," Limones said.
"And you saw in the video that they showed up not long after Adrian drove really fast towards the school?" he followed.
"Correct," Limones said.
Despite nearly 400 officers responding to the shooting, law enforcement took 77 minutes to mount a counterassault to kill Ramos. Gonzales is one of only two officers charged in the case, along with former Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo.
Judge Sid Harleseated a full jury after an emotionally fraught selection process on Monday. Dozens of potential jurors voiced frustration with the police response, and more than 100 excused themselves from the process, sayingthey did not believe they could be fair and impartial.
"They were only protecting themselves more than they were protecting the children," one dismissed juror told the court, as others cheered and clapped in agreement. "I would have sacrificed myself to save them, but they didn't. They just sat there."
Gonzales has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers argue he is being blamed for a broader law enforcement failure. During the jury selection process, some voiced frustration that more officers have not been charged in the years following the tragedy.
"Are you saying this man is the whole problem? You are sticking it on his shoulders alone?" one dismissed juror remarked. "How many of them were out there? They should all be sitting there with him."
Gonzales was charged last year, along with Arredondo, the on-site commander on the day of the shooting. Arredondo's trial has been indefinitely postponed due to a pending civil lawsuit after the members of an elite tactical unit with the U.S. Border Patrol refused to speak with prosecutors about their involvement that day.
Gonzales' case is a rarity in U.S. law.
In2023, aFlorida jury acquitted Scot Peterson, a former Broward County sheriff's deputy, who was charged with child neglect and culpable negligence for his alleged inaction during the2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolin Parkland, Florida. Peterson's lawyers argued his role as an armed school resource officer did not amount to a caregiving post needed to prove child neglect in Florida, and that the response to the shooting was muddled by poor communication.
According to Bob Jarvis, a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University, prosecutors in the Gonzales case are likely to face the same legal hurdles that doomed the Peterson case.
"What you're really trying to do," he said, "is argue ... that being a coward is a crime, and that is very, very difficult."
