CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Jurors got their first look Thursday at a former Uvalde CISD police officer’s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting nearly four full years ago.
However, testimony ended Thursday afternoon after a juror’s family emergency put the trial on a temporary hold.
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 events from Thursday’s proceedings from the Nueces County Courthouse in Corpus Christi.
9:01 a.m. - Jurors entered the courtroom.
The state called Daniel Coronado to the stand. Coronado, who is now retired, was a former Uvalde Police Department sergeant and was among the first officers at the scene of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
Bill Turner, a special prosecutor appointed in this case by Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell, began a line of questioning.
9:06 a.m. - Turner asked Coronado which law enforcement agency would hold “primary jurisdiction” if a crime was committed at a Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District campus.
“The school police would typically take charge of that incident,” Coronado said.
“And if the school, by taking charge, does that mean that you were excluded from working on a police (school) campus?” Turner asked.
“No, sir. No, sir,” Coronado said. “We had a good relation with the campus police officers. We maintained a working relationship with them. We notified them if there was any investigations that needed to take place that, if we needed to conduct an investigation, we would notify them and advise them and go from there.”
9:09 a.m. - Turner asked Coronado how he was armed on the day of the May 24, 2022, shooting.
“I had a pistol — a glock sidearm,” Coronado said. “I had an external ballistic vest. I had a baton, two pair of handcuffs, two magazines and one magazine in my pistol. I had a tourniquet. I had pepper spray, and I had a Taser.”
9:10 a.m. - Coronado said he did not have a rifle, but he had his body-worn camera on him.
9:14 a.m. - When Coronado first learned of the shooting at Robb Elementary School, he was at the Uvalde Police Department station.
“When the call came in for shots being fired in the proximity of the school, I jumped into my Tahoe and, when I turned the ignition on, the process had started where it was booting up the (Tahoe’s dashcam) camera system.”
9:15 a.m. - Thought he turned on his patrol vehicle’s lights on the way to Robb, Coronado said it didn’t trigger an “automatic recording” of his dash camera.
9:19 a.m. - Before hearing the “shots fired” call, Coronado said he also recalled hearing a radio call of “an accident that occurred.”
“I acknowledged it (the accident), but I didn’t pay much attention to it. I wasn’t responding to it,” Coronado said. “I believe that day I had six officers that were working. I think I had two officers that were at the police department doing reports.”
9:28 a.m. - When Coronado arrived at the school, he said he saw “officers taking cover behind the vehicles.”
“At the time, they were receiving gunfire — is what I perceived to be receiving gunfire," Coronado said.
“When you say you ‘perceived that they were receiving gunfire,’ describe how you came to that decision?” Turner asked.
“So, as I was approaching, I saw them taking cover, which means that they were on the north side of their vehicles. Their vehicles were facing west, I’m sorry, (their vehicles were facing) east,” Coronado said. “They were behind the vehicles. And when I got (out of) the vehicle, I could hear gunfire going off. I made my way to where they were at. My first question was: ‘Where was it coming from?’ They said that they didn’t know.”
9:29 a.m. - ″So, you had gunfire, but you didn’t know where it was coming from?" Turner asked.
“No, sir,” Coronado said.
“And the other officers didn’t, at that time, know where it was coming from?” Turner asked.
“No, sir,” Coronado said.
Coronado also noted he didn’t see the crash that was originally called out on police radio earlier in the day.
9:30 a.m. - While outside Robb, Coronado said he heard “yelling” come from the funeral home across the street.
“They’re yelling out, and I couldn’t understand what they were saying,” Coronado told the court. “My concern, at that point, was for them. So, I start yelling at them to, ‘Get back into the building.’ But, as they’re yelling at me, I can hear them saying, ‘He’s running towards the school. He’s running towards the school.’”
9:39 a.m. - Coronado explained his plan to potentially confront the gunman.
“I was thinking, ‘OK. I possibly have an individual that got into an accident and is trying to get away from us — trying to shoot at us. And, I need to find this guy and stop this guy,’" Coronado told the court. “So, when I figured that he was running through the school, I was going to go around in front, cut him off and flank him.”
9:41 a.m. - Coronado saw former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo arrive on the scene at approximately the same time.
“When I saw it was Chief (Pete) Arredondo, I mean, again, I know him personally. I was relieved to see him,” Coronado said, in part. “I was relieved to see him.”
“When you say ‘relieved,’ why does that ‘relieve’ you?” Turner asked.
“Well, it’s just someone that I know,” Coronado said. “It’s just someone that I — I’ve worked with him a number of years, and so, just seeing someone that I knew — it’s not that I didn’t know him, or know anybody else, it’s just — it was just — for some reason, I had someone that was there with me, in other words."
9:42 a.m. - Coronado and Arredondo began running towards the school.
9:43 a.m. - “He’s (Arredondo) asking me: ‘Where’s he at? Where’s he at?’ I relay back to him, ‘I have no idea. I don’t know,’” Coronado recalled. “At Robb (Elementary) School, there’s a circular drop-off on (at) the very front of the school. And so, we went through the front gate through there, where they (parents/buses) drop off the children. We ran through there and ran underneath the breezeways and ran past the cafeteria and front office (and) continued running and ran down one of the (other) breezeways.”
9:50 a.m. - After hearing gunfire, Coronado told jurors that he instructed two officers “to run inside the building.”
9:51 a.m. - As Coronado instructed, the officers entered the school.
9:53 a.m. - Arredondo, and later, Coronado soon entered the building.
“As I entered the building on the south side, we slowed down a little bit and were quickly walking through the hallways,” Coronado said. “As I’m entering the building, I’m looking around, and the first thing I notice is: the entire hallway is dark. It’s dark. There’s (sic) no lights on. I see what appeared to be smoke throughout the entire hallway.”
9:58 a.m. - Coronado said he later learned the two officers who entered the school in front of him were Gonzales and fellow Uvalde PD officer Donald Page.
9:59 a.m. - Coronado described to jurors what he saw as he and Arredondo traveled through the hallways on the southern part of the campus.
“As we’re making our way down the hall, walking north from the south end, we’re walking through and, at that point, I hear gunfire,” Coronado said. “I see an officer grab the back of his head (in front of him), which was later determined to be Lt. Javy (Javier) Martinez.”
10 a.m. - Turner asked Coronado if he knew Martinez.
“Yes, sir. I do,” Coronado said. “He’s employed with the Uvalde Police Department. And, I saw him grab the back of his head. I hear officers yelling, ‘Are you hit? Are you hit?’ And he says, ‘Yes, I’m hit.’”
Martinez’s head was grazed by gunfire.
“Once (Uvalde PD) officer (Javier) Martinez is hit, someone, I think it’s him, he yells out, ‘He’s (the shooter’s) on (in) the classroom over here to my left,’” Coronado recalled. “And so, at that point, I don’t know specifically right then and there, but I know he’s in one of the classrooms ahead of me.
10:01 a.m. - “I know that there’s (sic) officers, more than likely, coming this way,” Coronado continued. “So, right when that happens, myself and officer Adrian Gonzales run out the south end and start radioing traffic of what’s going on to responding officers.”
10:02 a.m. - Turner asked Coronado about a “discussion” that happened before he exited the south end of campus. The discussion was captured on Coronado’s body-worn camera.
“I believe it was a conversation between Adrian Gonzales and Pete Arredondo,” Coronado recalled. “There was some discussion about calling SWAT.”
“And that was between this defendant, Adrian Gonzales, and Pete Arredondo?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“Within seconds of when there was (were) actually shots being fired?” Turner asked.
“Yes,” Coronado responded.
“From inside a classroom?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“Adrian Gonzales and (Uvalde CISD Police) Chief (Pete) Arredondo are discussing calling SWAT?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“And would that be the opposite of confronting the shooter?” Turner asked.
“‘Would be the opposite’? No. I think we were trying to formulate a plan to confront the shooter,” Coronado said.
“And that would be: to call SWAT?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“Wait for SWAT to get there (to the school)?” Turner asked.
10:03 a.m. - ″Well, I don’t know if they were necessarily waiting on SWAT," Coronado said, in part. “I can’t answer as to what they were thinking.”
“I just asked you — OK. Fair enough,“ Turner said. ”It was just ‘call SWAT.’”
“That’s it. That’s all I can tell you,” Coronado said, in part. “Yes, sir.”
Coronado and Gonzales then left the south wing of the school.
Coronado said Gonzales did, in fact, call for a SWAT Team to respond to the school.
He also saw Gonzales “positioned himself on the east side, on the south side, but the east side (corner) of the building.”
“I looked, and I noticed that he had his pistol drawn and he (Gonzales) was covering the east side of the building because we both were concerned that he (the shooter) might jump out,” Coronado said. “We had officers that were already in the hallway, and Adrian (Gonzales) immediately positioned himself on the corner watching the windows.”
10:04 a.m. - Coronado, who said he returned to the school’s west wing hallway, could not “recall” Gonzales doing the same.
10:08 a.m. - Coronado’s dashcam video began playing before the court.
10:09 a.m. - More of Coronado’s dashcam video showed Arredondo and other officers hurrying towards the school.
10:14 a.m. - Coronado’s body-worn camera video was played before the court. According to Turner, the video is before children were evacuated from the school.
10:15 a.m. - At the 11:36 a.m. mark in the video, Coronado was heard saying the shooter may “possibly be in the building” before he heard gunshots.
“Oh s---. Shots fired. Get inside,” Coronado said in the video. “Go. Go. Go.”
During the portion of the bodycam, a dispatcher was heard saying a “female was shot in the head” on “Diaz Street.”
Investigators later determined that the Robb gunman shot his grandmother in the face on Diaz Street before traveling to the school.
10:16 a.m. - In the video, Coronado entered the school. Turner paused the video.
“Earlier in your testimony, you said that it was ‘dark’?” Turner asked.
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“Does it appear that there are lights on (in the hallway)?” Turner asked.
According to the video, the lights were on in the hallway.
“I don’t know if those are lights or skylights,” Coronado said.
“OK,” Turner said. “But is this the condition that you saw the hallway in?”
“Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
“Could you see other officers?” Turner asked.
“I could see other officers in front of me. Yes, sir,” Coronado said.
10:17 a.m. - “Thank you,” Turner said.
Coronado told the court the two officers shown in the above screenshot of his body-worn camera video are Gonzales and Arredondo.
At the 11:37 a.m. mark of Coronado’s body-worn camera video, while he is heard catching his breath, at least four gunshots rung out.
10:18 a.m. - At the 11:38 a.m. mark in the video, an officer asked another officer if they “were hit.”
“Yeah,” the injured officer was heard saying in the video.
The phrase, “Get SWAT,” was also heard in the video. Coronado reaffirmed that conversation was between Gonzales and Arredondo.
10:20 a.m. - At the 11:38 a.m. mark in the video, after a few moments, Coronado was seen outside the Robb Elementary School campus.
“OK, guys. He’s (the shooter) inside this building. We have him contained,” Coronado was heard saying on a dispatch with other officers. “He’s going to be in the building on the west side of the property. Careful with the windows. Facing the east. Right there.”
Turner noticed another officer outside with Coronado at that time.
“An officer outside said, ‘See that window shot out there? He’s (the shooter) going to be in that room.’ Who was that?” Turner asked.
“Adrian Gonzales,” Coronado replied.
“So, he (Gonzales) was aware of that defect in the window on down the road?” Turner asked.
“I don’t know about a defect, but he was trying to advise officers where he (the shooter) was inside the building. More or less,” Coronado said.
10:22 a.m. - Gonzales was seen outside the school in Coronado’s body-worn camera video.
10:25 a.m. - At the 11:40 a.m. mark in Coronado’s body-worn camera, Gonzales was seen with his weapon in his holster.
10:30 a.m. - At the 11:45 a.m. mark in Coronado’s body-worn camera video, Gonzales described seeing someone he believed to be a teacher moments earlier.
“I saw a teacher on the ground, and I thought she tackled somebody,” Gonzales said in the video.
10:34 a.m. - At the 11:48 a.m. mark in the body-worn camera video, Coronado was heard telling someone to “lockdown the (Uvalde) high school” because “the parents (are) going to go crazy.”
10:55 a.m. - Presiding Judge Sid Harle instituted a short break for jurors.
11:07 a.m. - Jurors reentered the courtroom. Turner resumed questioning Coronado.
11:08 a.m. - Dispatch police audio was played before the court.
11:12 a.m. - Coronado identified himself as the speaker in this portion of audio. In it, Coronado advised that Robb Elementary School be “shut down.”
11:28 a.m. - Turner passed the witness. Nico LaHood, the lead defense attorney for Gonzales, began cross-examining Coronado.
12:46 p.m. - LaHood passed the witness. Turner resumed questioning Coronado.
12:48 p.m. - Harle instituted a lunch break for jurors. The jury was expected to return to court at approximately 1:45 p.m.
1:53 p.m. - Jurors reentered the courtroom after the lunch break.
Harle notified the jury that one of their fellow jurors was not in the jury box with them.
“Something’s come up that’s beyond our control,” Harle said. “A juror’s wife has been taken to the hospital over lunch.”
1:54 p.m. - Harle said the juror is currently at the hospital with his wife. Her health status is unclear at this time.
“We do have (juror) alternates, but the problem is: we need to know the exact status (of the juror and the juror’s wife) and his ability to continue to serve before we empanel an alternate under the law,” Harle continued.
The judge said proceedings are expected to resume at 9 a.m. Friday. The juror will have an update on his family emergency at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
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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