Uvalde CISD officer Adrian Gonzales has been remembered and will stand trial for what he didn't do. For nearly 4 years, Uvalde families have waited. Waited for answers. Waited for accountability. Waited for someone in law enforcement to face consequences. Now, it finally starts. Former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales is now on trial, charged with 29 counts of child endangerment and abandonment for his role during the Robb Elementary School shooting. This isn't about politics. This isn't about hindsight. This is about duty. And whether abandoning it finally has consequences. Prosecutors say Gonzales was one of the first officers inside the school. He had training, he had equipment, he had radio access, and according to investigators, he failed to act, failed to engage the shooter, and failed the children trapped inside. Instead of stopping the threat, he's accused of standing by while time ran out. >> The first trial related to the shooting at Robb Elementary is set to begin. >> Yeah, jury selection is uh set to get underway Monday in the trial of a formal Uvalde CISD police officer. Centered on that delayed response to the shooting that took the lives of two teachers and 19 students in 2022. Since then, many of the families have pushed for accountability for the way that that uh shooting was handled as the nearly 400 officers showed up on scene that day, waiting more than an hour to confront the gunman. This is >> This matters because this is the first criminal trial tied to the Uvalde police response. Not internal discipline, not paid leave, not policy violations, actual criminal charges. For years, law enforcement has told the public mistakes were made, but no laws were broken. This trial challenges that entire narrative. >> The first of two trials involving officers who responded, Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts of abandoning or endangering a child. Gonzales has pleaded not guilty to those charges. >> Yeah, our investigative reporter Morgan Young gives us a look at that officer's background and his role on the day of the shooting. Many will be remembered for what they did, but since this tragic day, former Uvalde CISD officer Adrian Gonzales has been remembered and will stand trial for what he didn't do. Expect the defense to argue confusion, training failures, command structure breakdowns, but prosecutors will focus on something simpler. When children were dying, he had a duty to act and didn't. The jury won't be asked if he was perfect. They'll be asked if he was criminally negligent. He had been with the school district's police department for less than a year when it happened. He was hired in July 2021. Records from the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement show that before that, he had served with the city of Uvalde's police department for more than 10 years after getting his peace officer license in 2010. Those records also show that on December 17th, 2021, just more than 5 months before the shooting at Robb Elementary, Gonzales had completed a required 8-hour active shooter training course designed for school-based law enforcement. That course was taught by the Law Enforcement Academy at Southwest Texas College in Uvalde, where Gonzales was also working on college credits. If this case results in a conviction, it sets a precedent, a dangerous one, for bad policing, because it tells officers nationwide, your badge does not erase responsibility. Your uniform does not excuse inaction. And I was following orders may no longer be enough. The college did not respond to my request for information on the course that was taught, but this flyer posted to the Southwest Texas Law Enforcement Academy Facebook page advertises an 8-hour active shooter training with the same identification number of the course Gonzales completed, stating that among the topics covered were priorities of action for school-based law enforcement and both the solo and unified response to active shooter events. According to the flyer, this course was taught 2 months before the shooting at Robb Elementary. Respectfully, And that makes this failure even harder to defend. An active shooter course was taught just weeks before the attack. The training was clear. Immediate engagement saves lives. But when the moment came, the training disappeared. This wasn't a lack of training. It was a refusal to act. >> just recommend people to pause and see if that anger is should be directed at Mr. Gonzales. That's it. Gonzales' attorney, Nico LaHood, did not respond to a request for comment about his client for this story, but said this about the case in 2024. Mr. Gonzales is is not guilty and we'll we'll we'll be litigating that before a jury at the right time. As that time approaches and the debate about what did or didn't, should or should have happened looms in a courtroom, there is also the question of how Adrian Gonzales, who was also a husband, father, and grandfather, will be known and remembered. This trial won't undo the tragedy of Uvalde. Nothing ever will. But accountability, real accountability, is how trust is rebuilt and how future failures are prevented. We'll be watching every step. If you believe badges don't grant extra rights, subscribe. If you believe silence protects failure, share this video. And if you want ongoing coverage of this trial and others like it, you're in the right place.