When they heard the “not guilty” verdict read aloud in the trial against Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde school police officer who was one of the first on scene the day of the 2022 mass shooting, several people in the courtroom broke down in tears.
Gonzales became visibly emotional as he heard the jury’s decision after nearly three weeks of trial proceedings and seven hours of deliberations.
And from the gallery, parents of the victims sobbed.
For them, there has been little justice ever since 19 children and two teachers were brutally murdered at Robb Elementary in one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.
The trial against Gonzales was their hope for some kind of justice.
