CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The prosecution called a new witness Wednesday in the ongoing trial of an ex-Uvalde school district police officer.
Melodye Flores, a former teacher’s aide at Robb Elementary School, took the stand Wednesday morning. Flores described talking to ex-Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales as he responded to the school shooting.
Due to his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Adrian Gonzales has been accused and charged with endangering the lives of 29 children on May 24, 2022.
Below is the timeline of Wednesday’s court proceedings from the Nueces County Courthouse in Corpus Christi.
8:28 a.m. - A hearing began without the presence of jurors.
The state, namely special prosecutor Bill Turner, called Michael Witzgall as a proffer witness to the stand. A proffer witness is a person who could become a witness and eventually testify before the jury.
Witzgall is a retired law enforcement and military instructor.
Turner began a line of questioning.
8:31 a.m. - Witzgall said he taught an active shooter training course where Adrian Gonzales, the ex-Uvalde CISD police officer on trial, was a student.
“All my records indicate such,” Witzgall told the court.
8:32 a.m. - Turner asked Witzgall about any “universal” requirements when a law enforcement officer engages an active shooter situation.
“As the name would indicate: active shooter; immediate response. All of our response has to be quick,” Witzgall told the court, in part. “We have to get in there (and) we have to stop it. Or, if the bad guy is at, let’s say, a park: we’ve got to get in front of him. We’ve got to stop his movement.”
8:35 a.m. - Turner passed the proffer witness. Jason Goss, a co-defense attorney representing Gonzales, began cross-examining Witzgall.
8:38 a.m. - Goss asked Witzgall if he was going to offer an opinion on “other officers’ being here (near Robb Elementary School) with a line-of-sight to the building.”
“I know about it, but I haven’t reviewed it, sir,” Witzgall said.
8:39 a.m. - Witzgall told the court that he hasn’t read or watched any “news reports” regarding this trial since he was subpoenaed by the prosecution on Dec. 10, 2025.
“Once court started, Your Honor, (I have) completely cut off everything from any conversations (regarding the case) at all,” Witzgall said.
8:40 a.m. - Goss asked Witzgall when Gonzales took the active shooter course.
“Yes, sir. It was ‘Class 5-18,’ so, the fifth class of 2018,” Witzgall said. “The specific dates were from April 9, 2018 to April 13, 2018.”
8:41 a.m. - Gonzales completed the course in Uvalde, according to Witzgall.
8:44 a.m. - Goss passed the proffer witness. The state had no further questions for Witzgall.
8:45 a.m. - Witzgall was granted witness status. Presiding Judge Sid Harle excused Witzgall from the stand.
The hearing without jurors concluded. Harle instituted a short break.
9:01 a.m. - Jurors entered the courtroom.
The state called Melodye Flores, who worked as a teacher’s aide at Robb Elementary School in May 2022, to the stand. At the request of the court, Flores’ face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
Turner began a line of questioning.
9:06 a.m. - Flores was asked about May 24, 2022 — the day of the shooting.
9:07 a.m. - Flores said two of the three students she was typically responsible for came to school that day.
9:08 a.m. - Following the school’s awards ceremony, Flores said her teacher directed her and her students to return to the classroom.
“We were there (in the classroom), and it was almost time for them (students) to have their lunch,” Flores said. “We have somebody bring their lunches to the classroom because they eat in the classroom.”
9:09 a.m. - Flores began to warm up her lunch while the students began eating theirs.
She then said she heard something on the “school radio.”
9:10 a.m. - Flores said she “couldn’t understand” the first message over the school radio, but she did understand the message the second time around.
“The second time it called in, they said, ‘There was a shooter, and he was jumping the fence and had a gun,’” Flores told the court. She also said the gunman was also “shooting.”
9:11 a.m. - Flores said she then took her radio and ran outside.
9:12 a.m. - Turner asked Flores why she ran outside instead of taking lockdown procedures.
“Because I knew the schedules that we had. And we already knew who was outside at the time and who wasn’t,” Flores told the court, in part.
9:14 a.m. - When Turner asked again about the potential threat of running outside during an active shooter situation, Flores said she “wanted to make sure the kids were in(side) and safe.”
9:16 a.m. - Flores described when she saw the gunman for the first time.
“In an area of a corner (of campus), where the A/C’s where at, it’s fenced up,” Flores said. “That’s when I saw the shooter right there.”
Flores began to tear up.
“Like I said, I didn’t make it to the door because that’s when I saw him,” Flores said. “He was wearing all black and a hoodie. ... (He) had curly, kind of, shoulder-length hair. That’s when he started shooting at me.”
9:17 a.m. - Turner asked how Flores knew the gunman was shooting at her.
“Because he just stood there and lifted up his rifle as I started running back,” Flores said.
Flores admitted that she previously thought the gunman was firing a “regular handgun.”
“I was running, and he just kept shooting,” Flores said. “When I looked back, all I could see was that he was still standing there. All I could see was just fire coming out of the barrel.”
9:18 a.m. - At one point, Flores said she fell down.
“I thought that he had shot me,” Flores told the court.
9:19 a.m. - “Had you been shot?” Turner asked.
“No. I wasn’t,” Flores said.
When she got up, Flores said she saw an unmarked, white law enforcement vehicle.
9:20 a.m. - Flores said she told the officer the shooter appeared to be heading towards the fourth grade building and that “he needed to get stopped.”
The identity of the officer is unclear, according to her testimony.
9:21 a.m. - While she was talking to the officer, Flores said she “kept hearing (gun)shots.”
9:24 a.m. - “When you told the officer to go in, did he go in?” Turner asked Flores.
“No,” Flores said.
“What did he do?” Turner asked.
“He just stayed there,” Flores said. “Like I said, that’s when I ran to see if everybody else was in (the school) and found a place (to hide).”
“He just stayed there?” Turner asked.
“I believe so,” Flores said.
“And about how many times did you urge him to go in and do something?” Turner asked.
“Like I said, it was a couple of times,” Flores said.
“A couple? Does that mean twice?” Turner asked.
“Two, three times,” Flores said.
Flores said she encountered a second grade teacher at her classroom door. The teacher asked Flores if she wanted to go inside.
“I said, ‘No. I need to make sure the door’s locked.’” Flores told the court. “And it was locked. ... When I went in, she already had the kids in a corner covered with her bookshelves, you know, to protect them. Her phone was ringing, and her blinds were still up. And I said, ‘You need to put your phone on silent or turn it off. And put your blinds down and close them.’”
9:26 a.m. - After deciding to remain in the teacher’s classroom, Flores said she also attempted to put a chair up against the classroom’s door handle.
“I wasn’t going to let nobody (sic) hurt them,” Flores said.
According to Flores, she continued to hear “nothing but (gun)shots.”
9:27 a.m. - “(He) kept shooting and shooting,” Flores said.
She told the court she “grabbed some scissors” in the classroom to defend herself just in case.
9:28 a.m. - Turner asked Flores how she was able to “leave the room.”
“Whoever was going by the classroom in that area was knocking on the door, and which, we got a knock,” Flores recalled. “I was trying to tell the second grade teacher not to open the door because, at that time, they didn’t say who it was or anything like that. But she went ahead and opened the door.”
9:29 a.m. - Flores said it was law enforcement at the door.
9:30 a.m. - Law enforcement took Flores, the teacher and her students out of the school and moved them “two, three blocks down the street.” A bus later came and took them to the Uvalde Civic Center.
9:33 a.m. - On a map of the school, Flores showed jurors where she was at the time she saw the shooter on May 24, 2022.
9:38 a.m. - Flores said the officer she told to go into the school was “pacing back and forth” outside.
9:44 a.m. - Turner passed the witness. Nico LaHood, Gonzales’ lead defense attorney, began cross-examining Flores.
9:49 a.m. - LaHood asked Flores making “sure the doors are locked” during a lockdown.
“You would agree that there was a policy that all doors at the school needed to be locked?” LaHood asked.
“Yes,” Flores said.
“At all times?” LaHood asked.
“Right,” Flores said.
9:50 a.m. - “The school policy was for the external doors to be locked and the internal doors to be locked, correct?” LaHood asked.
“Correct,” Flores said.
9:59 a.m. - LaHood acknowledged the officer Flores spoke to was, in fact, Gonzales.
“And so, you perceive Mr. (Adrian) Gonzales as — you didn’t know it was him at the time — as ‘pacing,’ right?" LaHood asked.
“Right,” Flores said.
LaHood argued that his client was merely taking stock of what was happening.
“But he was getting out (of his patrol vehicle), he’s assessing you because you’re yelling things at him, right?” LaHood asked.
10:14 a.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed a line of questioning.
10:18 a.m. - Turner passed the witness.
10:19 a.m. - The defense had no further questions for Flores at the time, but it also said the witness may be subject to recall.
Flores was excused from the stand.
10:20 a.m. - The state called Dr. Cherie Hauptmeier, a physician who worked at a clinic near the Uvalde Memorial Hospital on May 24, 2022. At the request of the court, Hauptmeier’s face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
Turner began a line of questioning.
10:22 a.m. - Hauptmeier said she was in a meeting at a different clinic at the time of the shooting.
10:23 a.m. - “We had an alert that sent a mass text message to all the physicians saying that they needed us immediately in the emergency room (at Uvalde Memorial Hospital),” Hauptmeier told the court.
Hauptmeier said she then responded to the hospital.
10:24 a.m. - Hauptmeier said she “got there (the hospital) as soon as I could.”
“When I got there, there were other doctors that were already treating patients,” Hauptmeier told jurors. “I circled around in the emergency room and tried to help in any way that I could.”
In her estimation, Hauptmeier said there were between eight and 10 “of us (doctors).”
“There were about 15 (patients),” she said.
10:26 a.m. - The defense team agreed with the state to have Hauptmeier serve as the sole representative of the doctors who treated the patients instead of having each doctor testify in court.
10:27 a.m. - Hauptmeier began reading the sustained injuries of patients she treated to jurors.
10:37 a.m. - Turner passed the witness. Goss thanked Hauptmeier for her work and did not have any additional questions for her.
Hauptmeier was excused from the stand.
Harle instituted a short break for jurors. The jury exited the courtroom.
11 a.m. - Jurors reentered the courtroom.
11:01 a.m. - The state called Jamie Torres, the parent of a Robb Elementary School student, to the stand. At the request of the court, Torres’ face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
In May 2022, Torres’ daughter, Khloie, was a fourth grade student at the school.
Christina Mitchell, the Uvalde County District Attorney, began a line of questioning.
11:03 a.m. - Torres said Khloie “was excited” on that day. She received the “Good Citizen Award” during the school’s awards ceremony.
Torres said she later received a text message from the school.
“It said, ‘The school went into a lockdown and to stay away from the premises,’” Torres recalled. “Everything was under control.”
According to Torres, the district sent out two additional notifications about the incident: a “bailout,” which refers to a suspect being on the run near a school, followed by an “active shooter” notification.
11:04 a.m. - Mitchell asked Torres when was the next time she saw her daughter after the shooting.
“It was after she came from the hospital because I was out of town,” Torres said.
Khloie was a student in Room 112 — one of the classrooms where the gunman opened fire on teachers and children.
“She had bullet fragments in her forehead and in her left thigh,” Torres said.
“Now, those bullet fragments in her head: do they still exist today?” Mitchell asked.
“Yes,” Torres said.
“What about the ones in her leg?” Mitchell asked.
“Yes,” Torres said.
11:05 a.m. - As of now, according to Torres, doctors said it is safest to keep the bullet fragments where they are inside Khloie.
Mitchell passed the witness. Goss expressed his gratitude that Khloie survived the shooting and had no further questions for Torres.
11:06 a.m. - Torres was excused from the stand.
11:07 a.m. - The prosecution called Jennifer Haby, who is currently a counselor with the Bluebonnet Children’s Advocacy Center in Uvalde, to the stand. At the request of the court, Haby’s face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
Mitchell began a line of questioning.
11:08 a.m. - Haby said she is a former teacher with Uvalde CISD.
11:10 a.m. - Haby said she has counseled some Robb Elementary School shooting survivors.
Mitchell asked Haby to then define post-traumatic stress disorder for the jury.
“PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder is ongoing stress after the traumatic event,” Haby said.
11:11 a.m. - PTSD, Haby said, can “manifest itself in many ways.”
“Through the body, through headaches, stomach aches, nausea,” Haby said. “As well as: not wanting to leave your home or not being able to leave your home. Socially. Trust with others.”
11:13 a.m. - Mitchell asked Haby about things that can trigger PTSD in children who survived the shooting.
“I’m seeing helicopters (trigger children). Loud noises trigger children,” Haby said. “Colors.”
“What colors?” Mitchell asked.
“Red,” Haby said.
“Why red?” Mitchell asked.
“It’s the color of blood,” Haby said.
11:19 a.m. - Mitchell passed the witness. Goss thanked Haby for her work and began cross-examining her.
Haby said she has treated students from Room 112 as well as other students who attended the school that day.
11:24 a.m. - Goss passed the witness. The state had no further questions for her.
Haby was excused from the stand.
The prosecution called Michael Witzgall as a witness to testify in front of jurors for the first time. At the request of the court, Witzgall’s face was not shown on the trial’s livestream for this portion of proceedings.
Turner began questioning Witzgall.
11:29 a.m. - Witzgall began telling jurors about the “curriculum” for his active shooter training.
“First and foremost, everything is as much hands-on as we can possibly make it. So, it’s 25% lecture and 75% hands-on, out in the field, doing drills (and) scenarios,” Witzgall said, in part. “I based this curriculum back in my military days. I was trained in hostage rescue and how to clear an embassy.”
11:34 a.m. - Turner asked Witzgall about what his training says about waiting “for backup” in an active shooter situation.
“We’ve got to stop the killing. There’s no other way I can say that, folks. OK?” Witzgall said. “You can’t wait for backup. I know there are curriculums out there, sir, that teach, ‘Always wait for two to three more guys.’ And my opinion, in the way I train people, you don’t have time to wait. You’ve got to make a move.”
11:37 a.m. - Turner asked Witzgall about the importance of gunfire when an officer arrives on scene of a shooting before a noticeable “blood trail.”
“It’s critical,” Witzgall said.
“And critical means what?” Turner asked.
“I need to move toward that gunfire,” Witzgall said.
“What if you’re alone?” Turner asked.
“I need to move to that gunfire, sir,” Witzgall responded.
11:40 a.m. - Turner asked Witzgall if officers should run toward gunfire “recklessly.”
“Never,” Witzgall said. “You can move tactically.”
“And what does tactically mean?” Turner asked.
“OK. I’ll use the example of an open area. Hopefully, there’s trees, other things that I can move to leapfrog from one to the other, alright?” Witzgall said. “I’m doing it fast, and I’m not doing it with reckless abandon. I’m moving tactically. That’s what we talk about. Yeah, if it’s a completely open field, well, I’m in a lot of danger. I know I’m in a lot of danger.”
11:41 a.m. - “You still move to the gunfire,” Turner said.
“I’m still moving to the gunfire,” Witzgall said.
11:52 a.m. - Harle instituted a lunch break for jurors. The judge said the state and the defense were preparing to hold a meeting outside of the jury’s presence.
Jurors are expected to resume at approximately 1:30 p.m.
1:34 p.m. - The hearing ended. It is unclear what was discussed during the meeting.
Jurors reentered the courtroom. Turner resume questioning Witzgall.
1:35 p.m. - The state submitted photos as evidence with the defense’s permission.
The photos, which were shown to the court, depicted Gonzales performing various drills at Witzgall’s training program.
1:39 p.m. - Turner passed the witness. LaHood began cross-examining Witzgall.
1:41 p.m. - Witzgall told LaHood that Gonzales has taken “multiple” classes with him, including the active shooter situation course.
“You’re saying multiple courses as in two?” LaHood asked.
“He (Gonzales) took: basic SWAT, advanced SWAT, hostage rescue, active shooter,” Witzgall responded.
1:44 p.m. - LaHood called back one of the quotes Witzgall gave to the state earlier Wednesday: “Stop the killing.”
“If someone tells you to ‘stop the killing,’ how? How do you ‘stop the killing’?” LaHood asked Witzgall.
“OK, sir. I’ve got to close width. I’ve got to maneuver up and neutralize whatever’s causing the killing,” Witzgall said.
1:45 p.m. - “So, when you say you close up, that depends on the circumstance, right?” LaHood asked. “A lot of people get frustrated with lawyers when they ask them questions, and the lawyers’ answer is, ‘Well, it depends. It depends on your circumstance. It depends on the law. It really depends on that specific scenario.’ So, ‘it depends’ matters in tactics, as well. Would you agree with that?”
“Yeah,” Witzgall said. “Yes.”
“And you can’t train for every circumstance?” LaHood asked.
“That would be impossible,” Witzgall responded.
2:06 p.m. - LaHood began reading a passage from the manual of Charlie Mike Enterprises, Inc. (CME) on the topic of law enforcement officers “going it alone.”
2:07 p.m. - CME, which is Witzgall’s company, “does not endorse” officers “going it alone.”
Witzgall wanted to “clarify” the context of that passage.
“Ladies and gentlemen, please understand that I don’t ever endorse an officer doing something by himself,” Witzgall said. “But, if people are dying, then you’ve got to get in there and stop it. The first part of our entry curriculum, sir — in the manual; in the drills that we do — it always starts with one man. Under the guise that, sir, that one man can make a difference."
“Yes, sir. Or one woman,” LaHood said.
“Or one woman,” Witzgall said. “Yes, sir.”
2:14 p.m. - Witzgall told the court that Robb Elementary School not having locked doors made the campus “more soft” or more vulnerable.
LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed questioning Witzgall.
2:17 p.m. - Turner passed the witness. LaHood resumed cross-examination of Witzgall.
2:21 p.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed questioning Witzgall.
2:22 p.m. - Turner passed the witness. LaHood resumed cross-examination of Witzgall.
2:22 p.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner had no further questions for Witzgall.
Harle excused Witzgall from the stand.
2:23 p.m. - The state and defense team approached Harle’s bench for a brief meeting.
2:24 p.m. - The meeting concluded.
The state called Christopher Salinas to the stand. At the request of the court, Salinas’ face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
Salinas is the father of Samuel Salinas, who was a student in Ms. Garcia’s fourth grade class. Garcia’s class was held in Room 112.
Mitchell began questioning Salinas.
2:25 p.m. - Salinas said his son received an award during Robb Elementary School’s awards ceremony on May 24, 2022.
Salinas said he later received a “lockdown” text while he was at work.
2:26 p.m. - When Salinas received a phone call from the Uvalde Memorial Hospital, he left work to go see his son at the hospital.
Samuel Salinas was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his right thigh, his father told the court.
2:27 p.m. - Because Samuel still has shrapnel lodged in his thigh, Christopher Salinas said he is “limited.”
2:28 p.m. - One of Samuel’s triggers stemming from the shooting include the color red.
Mitchell passed the witness.
2:29 p.m. - Goss expressed gratitude that Samuel Salinas survived the tragedy and passed the witness. The state had no further questions for Salinas.
Salinas was excused from the stand.
2:32 p.m. - The state called Mercedes Salas, a fourth grade teacher at Robb Elementary School, to the stand.
Mitchell began questioning Salas.
2:37 p.m. - After the May 24, 2022, awards ceremony, Salas said some of her students went home with their families. Those who stayed went back with Salas to the classroom to watch a movie.
2:38 p.m. - “We were going to have sno-cones at the end of the day,” Salas told the court.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Salas said she heard the first gunshot.
“But it was far when I heard it (the gunshot),” Salas told Mitchell. “Then, I heard a second one, and that one was really close to the building.”
2:39 p.m. - Salas said one of her students heard that second gunshot.
“And he looked at me with panic,” Salas said, in part. “He’s, like, ‘Gunshot.’” She then started lockdown procedures in her classroom, which included pausing the movie.
2:40 p.m. - Salas told the court she received the Raptor lockdown notification at 11:32 a.m.
“The last thing I had to do was to make sure that my door was locked, which it was locked,” Salas said. “I normally kept my door locked. It was always locked, but I just had to make sure it really, really was.”
Salas double-checked her door being locked by first opening the door and then slammed it hard “to make sure,” she told the court.
2:41 p.m. - Mitchell asked Salas if any of her students helped her lock her door.
“I went outside by myself, but one of them was following me. Because (during) every drill, he always likes to follow me,” Salas recalled to jurors. “To do the drill, he’s like, ‘Miss. It’s just a drill, Miss. I can open the door for you, Miss. I can follow you.’ I said, ‘This time, it was different. You can’t follow me.’ But he was relentless. ‘I have to follow you. I do this every time with you.’ (And I said,) ‘But not today. It’s different today.’”
2:42 p.m. - “And you knew it was different because why?” Mitchell asked.
“Because I heard the gunshots,” Salas said.
2:43 p.m. - Salas said all of her students on lockdown were sitting except for one.
“I saw him standing, and I said, ‘You have to sit.’ And I grabbed him, and I went down with him (to the floor) like that,” Salas said. “As soon as I did that, I heard a gunshot in the hallway.”
As soon as Salas heard the gunshot in the hallway, she let her loved ones know.
“I immediately texted my family,” Salas said as she began to tear up. “And I said (texted), ‘Gunshots in the hallway. Pray for us.’ I texted my husband, my daughter and my son.”
2:45 p.m. - One of Salas’ students whispered to her. When she looked over, the student had a pair of scissors.
“I didn’t tell him to put them away because those scissors made him feel safe,” Salas said.
2:46 p.m. - Salas said she began to pray to God for protection over her classroom wall and door.
“And, after that, then I heard a lot of gunshots. After hearing so many gunshots, I started smelling gunpowder,” Salas said.
“Did you hear any children at this time?” Mitchell asked.
“I heard kids screaming,” Salas responded, in part. “And, when they screamed, I heard the gunshots. Then, I didn’t hear them (the kids) anymore. So, I knew something happened to them because I couldn’t hear them anymore. And, whoever it was, I knew he was close to my room because I could just smell it.”
2:47 p.m. - Salas said one of her students asked her about the screaming in other classrooms.
“‘Ms. Salas, they’re screaming,’” Salas recalled the student saying to her. And I said, ‘I know, mija,’ because it’s one of my girls. And I said, ‘They’re screaming because they’re scared just like you.’ I had to lie to them."
2:49 p.m. - Salas said she heard someone outside by her classroom windows ask if anyone was inside the classroom.
“I heard my windows breaking ... and I saw a baton at the end. I thought, ‘It must be officers because who else would carry a baton?’” Salas said. “That’s when I told my kids, ‘Let’s get up, and let’s go.’”
2:51 p.m. - Mitchell passed the witness. Goss began cross-examining Salas.
2:55 p.m. - Several years before the 2022 shooting, in 2014, Salas said she was formerly teaching in Room 111 at Robb Elementary School.
“At a point, during this, did you recognize who you now know is the shooter?” Goss asked Salas.
“Yes,” Salas said.
“And that person was one of your students in Room 111?” Goss asked.
“Yes,” Salas said.
“While he was in fourth grade?” Goss asked.
“Yes,” Salas said.
Goss passed the witness. The state had no further questions.
2:56 p.m. - Salas was excused from the stand.
2:57 p.m. - The state called Ruby Gonzalez, a former police officer with Uvalde CISD on May 24, 2022, to the stand. Gonzalez is currently an officer with the Uvalde Police Department.
2:58 p.m. - Turner began a line of questioning.
3:09 p.m. - Gonzalez said she took an active shooter training course at Uvalde High School. One of the two instructors was Gonzales.
3:10 p.m. - During the active shooter training course, Gonzalez said training included one-man entry scenarios.
3:11 p.m. - Gonzalez said she went home to eat lunch on May 24, 2022.
3:12 p.m. - Turner asked Gonzalez if anything interrupted her lunch break.
“I heard gunshots when I was outside of my residence,” Gonzalez said.
3:13 p.m. - Gonzalez also heard a call on the police radio about a “vehicle accident.”
3:14 p.m. - Gonzalez then heard an officer call out “shots fired at the school” on the police radio.
“And did you recognize that voice?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Gonzalez said.
“And who was that?” Turner asked Gonzalez.
“It was (Uvalde Police Department) Sgt. (Daniel) Coronado,” Gonzalez said.
“Sgt. Coronado?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Gonzalez said.
“And what did you do when you heard Sgt. Coronado say that it was ‘shots fired’ at the school?” Turner asked.
“I grabbed my duty belt, and I got in my police unit and went to the school,” Gonzalez responded.
3:16 p.m. - When she arrived, Gonzalez said met U.S. Border Patrol agents outside the school.
“They (Border Patrol agents) were talking about needing to get keys to start evacuating children,” Gonzalez said.
3:17 p.m. - By her count, Gonzalez said they were “about 10″ law enforcement officers at the scene when she arrived.
3:18 p.m. - When she went to the fourth grade wing area of the Robb Elementary School campus, Gonzalez said she couldn’t “give an approximate number” of how many officers were there.
Gonzalez also said she didn’t enter the fourth grade wing’s hallway, either.
“The amount of police cars and things that I saw outside, I felt like — if I was to have gone in there — I would have just taken up more space,” Gonzalez said.
3:19 p.m. - Gonzalez asked other officers “who have been in that area longer than I have if they needed anything” from her while at the scene.
3:20 p.m. - “One of the officers said, ‘The road needs to get cleared for additional buses,’” Gonzalez said. “So, I moved some police cars that were blocking the roadway.”
Gonzalez also performed “crowd control.”
3:21 p.m. - Gonzalez said she did not see then-former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo at the scene.
Turner passed the witness.
3:22 p.m. - LaHood began cross-examining Gonzalez.
3:23 p.m. - Gonzalez said she had not given a statement to the Texas Rangers.
3:41 p.m. - Gonzalez told the court she didn’t hear any gunshots after she arrived at the school.
3:44 p.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed questioning Gonzalez.
3:46 p.m. - At the time of the shooting, Gonzalez and Gonzales were co-workers at the school district.
Turner referenced some information Gonzalez gave to the Texas Rangers about who was the officer who yelled “shots fired” over the police radio.
“Let’s see if this refreshes your memory. This blue line,” Turner said, showing a quote from Gonzalez highlighted in blue.
“Who was it that you heard say, ‘Shots fired?’” Turner asked.
“‘At this time, officer Adrian Gonzales,” Gonzalez said.
“Not Coronado but Adrian Gonzales? Is that correct?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Gonzalez said.
Turner passed the witness. LaHood resumed cross-examining Gonzalez.
3:48 p.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed questioning Gonzalez.
Turner passed the witness. The state did not have any further questions for her.
3:49 p.m. - Harle excused Gonzalez from the stand. Harle also instituted a short break for jurors, who exited the courtroom.
4:04 p.m. - Jurors reentered the courtroom.
4:05 p.m. - The state called Myra Landry, a 911 communications supervisor in Uvalde, to the stand. At the request of the court, Landry’s face was not shown on the trial’s livestream.
Turner began a line of questioning.
4:17 p.m. - Landry discussed a 911 call placed on May 24, 2022, regarding a crash near the funeral home across the street from Robb Elementary School.
4:22 p.m. - The state and defense team met at Harle’s bench for a brief meeting. The meeting ended less than a minute later.
4:23 p.m. - Turner passed the witness. Gary Hillier, a co-defense attorney for Gonzales, began cross-examining Landry.
4:46 p.m. - Hillier passed the witness. The state had no further questions for Landry.
Harle excused Landry from the stand.
Harle dismissed jurors for the day. They are expected back in the courtroom at 9 a.m. Thursday.
Jurors exited the courtroom. A hearing without their presence began.
4:47 p.m. - The state called Daniel Coronado as a proffer witness to the stand. A proffer witness is a person who could become a witness and eventually testify before the jury.
At the time of the shooting, Coronado was a sergeant with the Uvalde Police Department.
Turner began a line of questioning.
4:52 p.m. - Turner passed the proffer witness. Goss began cross-examining Coronado.
Coronado said he “reviewed” his body-worn camera video from May 24, 2022, but alleged that he had not “gone into great detail.”
4:53 p.m. - Coronado said he activated the body-worn camera “while I was running down the breezeway” at Robb.
4:56 p.m. - The hearing concluded. Court proceedings officially ended for the day.
Background
Gonzales, 52, is one of two now-former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officers charged with child endangerment regarding the law enforcement response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. Gonzales is facing 29 child endangerment charges: 19 represent the children killed in the shooting, and the other 10 represent the children injured in the shooting.
An 18-year-old gunman also killed two teachers at the school on May 24, 2022.
The other officer, former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo, has yet to go to trial in his child endangerment case. Arredondo is facing 10 child endangerment charges.
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell is prosecuting the Gonzales case, but she appointed Bill Turner as special prosecutor. Turner was the former district attorney in Brazos County.
San Antonio-area attorney and former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood leads Gonzales’ defense team. The team is rounded out by fellow attorneys Jason Goss and Gary Hillier.
In August 2025, Gonzales requested a venue change for the trial.
In the motion, Gonzales’ defense team argued that he cannot receive a fair trial by a jury in Uvalde County due to the impact the massacre had on members of the community.
“This horrific tragedy touched every member of the Uvalde community,” LaHood said at the time. “It would be impossible to gather a jury that would not view the evidence through their own pain and grief.”
In October 2025, LaHood confirmed to KSAT that the trial venue was changed from Uvalde County to Nueces County.
The state is expected to call approximately 60 witnesses to the stand. Court records indicate some of those asked to be witnesses include the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, officers from other responding law enforcement agencies, medical personnel and some parents of school shooting victims.
Child endangerment charges are considered a state jail felony. Upon a potential conviction, Gonzales could be sentenced between six months and two years in a state jail.
Judge Sid Harle is the presiding judge in this case. If convicted, Gonzales also elected to have Harle determine his sentence instead of the jury.
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