Uvalde Officer Acquitted in Texas School Shooting Case

A Texas ⁠jury on Wednesday found a former police officer not guilty of felony child endangerment charges for his role in the 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, had ⁠faced 29 counts of child endangerment for what prosecutors said was his ⁠failure to ​stop a ⁠gunman in the first minutes ‍of one of the deadliest school ‌shootings in U.S. history.

The gunman was later shot ⁠dead ​by ‍other officers.