Trial underway for former Uvalde school police officer accused of slow response to shooting

Opening statements will be heard Tuesday morning in the trial of Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde school police officer accused of not doing more to save lives in the 2022 mass shooting.

Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of putting children in "imminent danger" of injury or death by failing to engage, distract or delay the shooter and by not following his training. The allegations also said he did not go toward the gunfire despite hearing shots and being told the shooter’s location. 

Terrified students inside the classrooms called 911 and parents outside begged for intervention by officers, some of whom could hear shots being fired while they stood in a hallway, according to The Associated Press. An investigation ultimately found that 77 minutes passed from the time authorities arrived until the tactical team breached a classroom and killed the shooter, identified as Salvador Ramos.