Former Uvalde police officer Adrian Gonzales was acquitted of all 29 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in connection with the 2022 mass shooting.
In May of 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fatally shot 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
According to multiple reports, the shooter, Salvador Ramos, spent more than 40 minutes inside as loved ones and onlookers begged the police to charge into the building.
Police arrived at 11:37 am, just 4 minutes after the gunman entered the school doors, but Ramos continued on with his killing spree virtually uninterrupted.
Footage obtained by the Austin-American Statesman, showed cops running down the hall after they heard gunfire.
A Uvalde police officer (not Gonzales) had a clear shot to take out Salvador Ramos before he entered Robb Elementary School and fatally shot 19 children and 2 adults.
A report by the Austin American-Statesman showed Uvalde police were in the hallway of Robb Elementary School with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within ten minutes of the start of the mass shooting by Salvador Ramos.
Gonzales was one of the few police officers in the ‘hallway of death.’
Prosecutors told the jurors that Gonzales did not fulfil his duty to protect the children from the gunman.
“During closing arguments on Wednesday morning, a prosecutor urged the jury to convict in order to send a message that law enforcement must fulfill their duty to protect when a gunman threatens children,” CBS News reported.
“Gonzales did not take the stand in his own defense. He has insisted he didn’t freeze in the chaotic early moments and never saw the gunman, and his lawyers argue that three officers on the other side of the school saw the gunman still outside and didn’t fire a shot,” CBS News reported.
The Texas jury acquitted Gonzales on all charges.
Gonzales was facing up to two years in prison.
BREAKING: A jury found a former Uvalde police officer not guilty on 29 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in connection with the 2022 mass shooting.
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