2026年1月22日 美国中部时间凌晨4:17 / 作者：安德鲁·海
1月21日（路透社）——周三，得克萨斯州一个陪审团对一名前警官作出无罪判决，该警官因在2022年乌瓦尔德校园枪击案中执法不力、未能保护儿童而面临刑事指控。这起美国历史上最致命的校园枪击案造成19名小学生和2名教师死亡。
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，他面临29项重罪儿童危害罪指控。检察官称，在这起美国历史上最致命的校园枪击事件发生后的最初几分钟里，他未能阻止枪手，因此负有责任。
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判决宣读后，冈萨雷斯双手掩面，他的律师则拍着他的背表示安慰。受害者的父母和兄弟姐妹对这一判决感到震惊，一些人拭去泪水，另一些人则面无表情地凝视前方。
科珀斯克里斯蒂的陪审团经过超过7小时的审议，对所有29项指控均作出无罪判决，每项指控最高可判处2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安全。
辩护律师杰森·戈斯（Jason Goss）告诉陪审员，检察官试图将乌瓦尔德枪击案中所有警察的失误归咎于冈萨雷斯，让他成为替罪羊。
“他们认定他必须为那天的痛苦付出代价，这是不公平的，”戈斯在总结陈词中表示。
2022年5月24日，冈萨雷斯是首批抵达乌瓦尔德罗布小学的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，最终被警方击毙。
冈萨雷斯被指控在接到活跃枪手报告后，乘坐巡逻车抵达罗布小学时，未能与枪手对峙。
“你不能袖手旁观，任由悲剧发生，”特别检察官比尔·特纳（Bill Turner）在总结陈词中对陪审团表示。
冈萨雷斯称，他当时看不见枪手，并否认在事件发生初期的混乱几分钟内（枪手在学校外时）自己出现了迟疑。
这起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。此前，辩方称冈萨雷斯在得克萨斯州希尔地区约1.6万人口的小镇乌瓦尔德无法获得公正审判。
冈萨雷斯是与此次枪击案相关的仅有的两名被刑事指控的人员之一。另一名警官、前乌瓦尔德学区警察局长皮特·阿雷东多（Pete Arredondo）预计将于今年晚些时候因类似指控受审，他已对此表示不认罪。
州和联邦对此次枪击事件的调查发现，警官们在权衡如何应对时，让18岁的枪手独自留在教室内，与孩子们在一起。
当边境巡逻队领导的战术小组冲入教室时，死亡人数已成为这个以高调校园枪击事件闻名的国家中最严重的伤亡事件之一。
尽管控枪措施的支持者与认为此类控制措施侵犯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较少。
美国前司法部长梅里克·加兰（Merrick Garland）在2024年发布乌瓦尔德联邦调查报告时表示，如果警方立即与枪手对峙，本可挽救更多生命。
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Former Texas police officer acquitted in Uvalde school shooting trial
January 22, 2026 4:17 AM UTC / By Andrew Hay
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.
“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.
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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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