By Andrew Hay
2026年1月22日 美国中部时间凌晨4:17 更新于9小时前
[1/5] 2022年7月13日，在美国得克萨斯州乌瓦尔德市，一段显示当年5月该校枪击事件的视频公布后，罗勃小学外的纪念场所周围设有隐私屏障和自行车架。REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
- 摘要
- 陪审团审议七小时后宣判冈萨雷斯无罪
- 指控冈萨雷斯在抵达后未与枪手对峙
- 辩方辩称冈萨雷斯是警方失误的替罪羊
1月21日（路透社）——得克萨斯州一个陪审团周三宣布，一名前警察因在2022年乌瓦尔德学校枪击事件中执法不当导致儿童受伤害而被判处刑事罪名，该罪名已被撤销。这起事件造成19名小学生和2名教师死亡，是美国历史上最致命的校园枪击事件之一。
52岁的阿德里安·冈萨雷斯（Adrian Gonzales）曾任职于乌瓦尔德学区警察局，面临29项重罪儿童危害指控。检察官称，他在这场美国历史上最致命校园枪击事件发生后的最初几分钟内未能阻止枪手，导致了这些指控。
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宣判后，冈萨雷斯双手掩面，他的律师们拍着他的背。受害者的父母和兄弟姐妹对这一判决感到震惊，一些人擦去泪水，另一些人则面无表情地凝视前方。
科珀斯克里斯蒂陪审团经过7个多小时的审议，对所有29项罪名均作出无罪判决，每项罪名最高可判处两年监禁。
这起审判是美国罕见的案例，一名警察因未能阻止犯罪而被指控危害生命。
辩护律师杰森·戈斯（Jason Goss）告诉陪审员，检察官希望将冈萨雷斯作为所有在枪击事件中犯错的警察的替罪羊。
“他们认定他必须为那天的痛苦付出代价，但这是不公平的，”戈斯在总结陈词中说。
2022年5月24日，冈萨雷斯是首批抵达乌瓦尔德罗勃小学的400多名执法人员之一。警方在进入枪手藏身的教室前等待了77分钟。
枪手是该校的一名前学生，已被警方击毙。
冈萨雷斯被指控在接到活跃枪手报告后，乘坐巡逻车抵达罗勃小学时未能与枪手对峙。
“你不能袖手旁观，任由这种事情发生，”特别检察官比尔·特纳（Bill Turner）在总结陈词中对陪审团说。
冈萨雷斯称，他当时看不到枪手，并否认在枪手在学校外的最初混乱几分钟内出现了退缩行为。
这场近三周的审判在科珀斯克里斯蒂举行，该市位于乌瓦尔德东南约175英里（282公里）处。辩方此前辩称，在这个拥有约1.6万人口的得克萨斯州山区小镇，冈萨雷斯无法获得公正审判。
冈萨雷斯是与此次枪击事件相关的两人之一，另一名警官是前乌瓦尔德学区警察局长皮特·阿雷东多（Pete Arredondo），预计他将于今年晚些时候因类似指控受审，目前已否认所有指控。
州和联邦调查发现，警方在权衡如何应对时，让18岁的枪手独自留在教室里，与孩子们在一起。
当由边境巡逻队官员领导的战术小组冲入教室时，死亡人数已达到该国知名校园枪击事件中的最高水平之一。
尽管控枪措施支持者与声称此类控制违反宪法持枪权的人士之间争论激烈，但与其他工业化国家相比，美国对枪支的限制仍然很少。
美国前司法部长梅里克·加兰（Merrick Garland）在2024年提交乌瓦尔德联邦调查委员会报告时表示，如果警方立即与枪手对峙，本可以挽救生命。
报道：Andrew Hay（New Mexico州陶斯市）；编辑：Steve Gorman、Christian Schmollinger和Himani Sarkar
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Former Texas police officer acquitted in Uvalde school shooting trial
By Andrew Hay
January 22, 2026 4:17 AM UTC Updated 9 hours ago
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Item 1 of 5 Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimiter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, after a video was released showing the May shooting inside the school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
[1/5]Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimiter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, after a video was released showing the May shooting inside the school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
- Summary
- Jury deliberated over seven hours before acquitting Gonzales
- Gonzales accused of failing to confront shooter upon arrival
- Defense argued Gonzales was scapegoated for police errors
Jan 21 (Reuters) – A Texas jury acquitted a former police officer of criminal child-endangerment charges on Wednesday stemming from his role in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 elementary students and two teachers.
Adrian Gonzales, 52, who belonged to the Uvalde school district police force, faced 29 counts of felony child endangerment for what prosecutors said was his failure to stop the gunman in the first minutes of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
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Gonzales buried his head in his hands after the verdict was read, with his lawyers clapping him on the back. Parents and siblings of the victims appeared stunned by the decision, some wiping away tears, while others stared ahead with blank expressions.
The Corpus Christi jury deliberated for over seven hours before reaching its not guilty verdict on all 29 counts, each of which carried up to two years in prison.
The trial was a rare case of a U.S. police officer being charged with endangering lives by failing to halt a crime.
Defense lawyer Jason Goss told jurors that prosecutors wanted to scapegoat Gonzales for the mistakes of all police officers at the shooting.
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“They have decided he has to pay for the pain of that day and it’s not right,” Goss said in closing arguments.
Gonzales was among the first of more than 400 law enforcement officers to arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24, 2022. Police waited 77 minutes before entering a classroom where the gunman was holed up.
The gunman, a former student at the school, was shot dead by police.
Gonzales was accused of failing to confront the shooter after he arrived at Robb Elementary in his patrol car in response to a report of an active shooter.
“You can’t stand by and allow it to happen,” Special Prosecutor Bill Turner told the jury during closing arguments.
Gonzales said he could not see the shooter and denied that he froze during the first chaotic minutes of the incident when the gunman was outside the school.
The nearly three-week trial was held in Corpus Christi, about 175 miles (282 km) southeast of Uvalde, after the defense argued Gonzales could not get a fair trial in the town of around 16,000 in Texas’ Hill Country.
Gonzales was one of only two people criminally charged in relation to the shooting. A second officer, former Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, is expected to face trial later this year on similar charges as Gonzales. He has pleaded not guilty.
State and federal investigations into the shooting found that officers left the 18-year-old gunman alone inside the classroom with children while weighing how to confront him.
By the time a tactical team led by Border Patrol officers stormed in, the death toll was among the worst ever in a country known for high-profile school shootings.
While debate has raged between proponents of gun control measures and those who say such controls violate the constitutional right to bear arms, there remain few restrictions on firearms in the U.S. compared with other industrialized nations.
Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, in remarks made while presenting the federal report on Uvalde in 2024, said lives would have been saved had the police immediately confronted the gunman.
Reporting by Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico; Editing by Steve Gorman, Christian Schmollinger and Himani Sarkar
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