审判前任的陪审员德州乌瓦尔迪，校警阿德里安·冈萨雷斯听取了一名警官对紧急情况反应的第一手描述，这名警官试图和Gonzales一起进入Robb小学。
检察官指控被控危害儿童罪的冈萨雷斯没有遵循他的训练，危害了19名死亡的学生和另外10名学生继续存在的学生。男性表示不服罪他的律师认为，他因为那天更广泛的执法失败而受到不公平的指责。执法部门花了77分钟才发起反击，结束了这场暴乱。
前乌瓦尔迪警官丹尼尔·科罗纳多被传唤为州证人，但他似乎为冈萨雷斯在2022年5月24日大规模枪击事件中的一些行为进行了辩护。
“他冲他们大喊小心，因为根据我们掌握的信息，枪手在大楼的那一边，我认为他担心有警察靠近，”科罗纳多周四在第一次见到冈萨雷斯时作证。"他试图四处看看发生了什么事。"
科罗纳多说，当他们意识到枪手已经进了学校后，他试图和另外三名警察——Gonzales，Uvalde学校警察局长Pete Arredondo和第三名警察——一起进入Robb小学。陪审员也看到了他们行为的人体摄像镜头。
“当我们穿过走廊时，天已经黑了。没有灯亮着。非常安静，我们什么都听不到，”科罗纳多说，并指出走廊闻起来像火药，墙壁被子弹“打穿”。
科罗纳多说，他们在走廊时听到了枪声，并看到另一名警察被击中后脑勺后撤退。
“他大喊，‘他在我左边的教室里，’”科罗纳多说。
在枪手从教室内开枪的几秒钟内，科罗纳多说Gonzales和Arredondo试图用他们的无线电请求SWAT的支持。
"那会不会和面对枪手正好相反?"检察官比尔·特纳问道。
“对面?不，我想我们是在试图制定一个计划来对抗枪手，那就是呼叫特警队，”科罗纳多回应道。
当他们从学校内撤退后，科罗纳多说Gonzales正在保护大楼的东侧，以防枪手跳出大楼。
在反诘问过程中，辩方使用了科罗纳多的证词和他的仪表板摄像头拍摄的镜头，辩称至少有一名其他官员可能有机会在枪手进入学校之前干掉他。
“他告诉你，‘我想我看到他了，’”辩护律师尼科·拉胡德(Nico LaHood)问及另一名乌瓦尔迪警官。
“是的，”科罗纳多说。
“他想开枪吗?”
“正确，”科罗纳多说。
拉胡德还试图重新定义冈萨雷斯当天的行为，因为检察官认为冈萨雷斯没有采取行动。
“你把自己置于危险之中。你拔出你的武器。每个人都停下来，因为现在有人设置了路障。警官们已经巡视过了，你的长官说，“去叫特警队。”那不是有人在逃避危险吧?”他问道。
“不，”科罗纳多说。
周三，陪审员听取了迈克尔·维茨格尔(Michael Witzgall)的证词，他是一名教师，曾教授冈萨雷斯一门关于积极射击反应、特警战术和人质谈判的课程。
“我们必须停止杀戮。伙计们，我别无选择。你不能等待后援，”维茨格尔对陪审员们说，仿佛他们是他的学生。“在我看来，以我训练人的方式，你没时间等。你必须采取行动。”
在一次冗长的盘问中，拉胡德追问维茨格尔，40小时的训练反应是否准备充分冈萨雷斯为了真实的东西。
父亲克里斯托弗·萨利纳斯(Christopher Salinas)也在周三作证，讲述了枪击事件对儿子塞缪尔(Samuel)身心造成的影响。
塞缪尔还有弹片植入的萨利纳斯说，他的大腿和伤口让他持续疼痛。
萨利纳斯作证说，听到爆裂声、争吵声和摔门声，看到红色会引发对塞缪尔枪击事件的记忆。
“萨利纳斯先生，你5月24日从医院接回来的孩子是那天被带到学校的那个孩子吗?”地方检察官克里斯蒂娜·米切尔问道。
“没有，”他回答。
Arredondo -枪击当天的现场指挥官-也被指控犯有多项危害和遗弃儿童罪，并拒绝认罪。Arredondo的案件因一项正在进行的联邦诉讼而被无限期推迟，此前美国边境巡逻队拒绝了乌瓦尔迪检察官多次试图采访应对枪击事件的边境巡逻队特工的努力，其中包括两名在战术小组中负责杀死学校枪手的特工。
Uvalde sergeant recounts entering Robb Elementary with Gonzales
Jurors on the trial of formerUvalde, Texas, school police officerAdrian Gonzales listened to a firsthand account of the emergency response from a police sergeant who tried to enter Robb Elementary School with Gonzales.
Prosecutors allege Gonzales, who is charged with child endangerment, did not follow his training and endangered the 19 students who died and an additional 10survivingstudents. Hehas pleaded not guiltyand his lawyers argue he is being unfairly blamed for a broader law-enforcement failure that day. It took 77 minutes before law enforcement mounted a counterassault to end the rampage.
Former Uvalde Police Sgt. Daniel Coronado was called as a state witness, but he appeared to defend some of Gonzales' actions during the May 24, 2022, mass shooting.
"He was yelling at them to be careful, because the shooter was on that side of the building from the information that we had, and I think he was concerned with officers approaching," Coronado testified on Thursday about first seeing Gonzales. "He was trying to get around to see what was going on."
Coronado said that he tried to enter Robb Elementary with three other officers -- Gonzales, Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo and a third -- once they realized the shooter had gone in the school. Jurors also saw body camera footage of their actions.
"As we are making our way through the hallway, it's dark. There are no lights on. It's extremely quiet, we don't hear anything," Coronado said, noting that the hallways smelled like gunpowder and the walls were "perforated" by bullets.
Coronado said they heard gunfire when they were in the hallway and saw another officer retreat after being hit on the back of his head.
"He yells out, 'He's in the classroom over here to my left,'" Coronado said.
Within seconds of the gunman firing from inside a classroom, Coronado said that Gonzales and Arredondo tried to use their radio to request support from SWAT.
"Would that be the opposite of confronting the shooter?" prosecutor Bill Turner asked.
"The opposite? No, I think we were trying to formulate a plan to confront the shooter, and that would be to call SWAT," Coronado responded.
After they retreated from inside the school, Coronado said Gonzales was covering the east side of the building in case the gunman jumped out of the building.
During cross-examination, the defense used Coronado's testimony and footage from his dash camera to argue that at least one other officer may have had an opportunity to take out the gunman before he entered the school.
"He tells you, 'I think I see him,'" defense attorney Nico LaHood asked about the other Uvalde Police officer.
"Yes," Coronado said.
"And he wanted to take the shot?"
"Correct," Coronado said.
LaHood also tried to reframe Gonzales' actions that day, as prosecutors argue that Gonzales failed to act.
"You put yourself in danger. You draw your weapon. Everybody is halted because now someone is barricaded. Officers have taken rounds, and your chief says, 'Go call SWAT.' That's not someone running away from danger, is it?" he asked.
"No," Coronado said.
On Wednesday, jurors heard testimony from Michael Witzgall, an instructor who taught Gonzales a class on active shooting response, SWAT tactics and hostage negotiations.
"We've got to stop the killing. There's no other way I have to say that, folks. You can't wait for backup," Witzgall said, speaking to the jurors as if they were his students. "In my opinion, in the way I train people, you don't have time to wait. You've got to make a move."
During a lengthy cross examination, LaHood pressed Witzgall about whether a 40-hour training response fully preparedGonzalesfor the real thing.
Dad Christopher Salinas also testified on Wednesday about the physical and mental impact the shooting took on his son, Samuel.
Samuel still has shrapnelembeddedin his thigh and the wound has left him in constant pain, Salinas said.
Salinas testified that hearing popping sounds, arguments and slamming doors and seeing the color red triggers memories of the shooting for Samuel.
"Mr. Salinas, is the child that you picked up from the hospital on May 24 the same child that was taken to school that day?" District Attorney Christina Mitchell asked.
"No," he answered.
Arredondo -- the on-site commander on the day of the shooting -- is also charged with multiple counts of endangerment and abandonment of a child and has pleaded not guilty. Arredondo's case has been delayed indefinitely by an ongoing federal lawsuit filed after the U.S. Border Patrol refused repeated efforts by Uvalde prosecutors to interview Border Patrol agents who responded to the shooting, including two who were in the tactical unit responsible for killing the gunman at the school.
