CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Jurors returned to court for another full day of witness testimony in the child endangerment trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer in Corpus Christi.
However, testimony ended Thursday afternoon after a juror’s family emergency put the trial on a temporary hold.
Due to his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Adrian Gonzales has been accused and charged with endangering the lives of 29 children on May 24, 2022.
A full timeline of Wednesday’s court proceedings can be found here.
Below is a timeline of events from Thursday’s proceedings from the Nueces County Courthouse in Corpus Christi.
9:01 a.m. – Jurors entered the courtroom.
Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde CISD police officer, sits in court during his child endangerment trial on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Corpus Christi. (Pool photo via KSAT)
The state called Daniel Coronado to the stand. Coronado, who is now retired, was a former Uvalde Police Department sergeant and was among the first officers at the scene of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
The state called Daniel Coronado to the stand on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Coronado was a former Uvalde Police Department sergeant who was among the first officers on scene at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022. (Pool photo via KSAT)
Bill Turner, a special prosecutor appointed in this case by Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell, began a line of questioning.
9:06 a.m. – Turner asked Coronado which law enforcement agency would hold “primary jurisdiction” if a crime was committed at a Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District campus.
“The school police would typically take charge of that incident,” Coronado said.
“And if the school, by taking charge, does that mean that you were excluded from working on a police (school) campus?” Turner asked.
“No, sir. No, sir,” Coronado said. “We had a good relation with the campus police officers. We maintained a working relationship with them. We notified them if there was any investigations that needed to take place that, if we needed to conduct an investigation, we would notify them and advise them and go from there.”
9:09 a.m. – Turner asked Coronado how he was armed on the day of the May 24, 2022, shooting.
Bill Turner, a special prosecutor assigned to the trial of ex-Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales, questioned a witness on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Corpus Christi. (Pool photo via KSAT)
“I had a pistol — a glock sidearm,” Coronado said. “I had an external ballistic vest. I had a baton, two pair of handcuffs, two magazines and one magazine in my pistol. I had a tourniquet. I had pepper spray, and I had a Taser.”
9:10 a.m. – Coronado said he did not have a rifle, but he did have his body-worn camera on him.
9:14 a.m. – When Coronado first learned of the shooting at Robb Elementary School, he was at the Uvalde Police Department station.
“When the call came in for shots being fired in the proximity of the school, I jumped into my Tahoe and, when I turned the ignition on, the process had started where it was booting up the (Tahoe’s dashcam) camera system.”
9:15 a.m. – Thought he turned on his patrol vehicle’s lights on the way to Robb, Coronado said it didn’t trigger an “automatic recording” of his dash camera.
9:19 a.m. – Before hearing the “shots fired” call, Coronado said he also recalled hearing a radio call of “an accident that occurred.”
“I acknowledged it (the accident), but I didn’t pay much attention to it. I wasn’t responding to it,” Coronado said. “I believe that day I had six officers that were working. I think I had two officers that were at the police department doing reports.”
9:28 a.m. – When Coronado arrived at the school, he said he saw “officers taking cover behind the vehicles.”
“At the time, they were receiving gunfire — is what I perceived to be receiving gunfire,” Coronado said.
“When you say you ‘perceived that they were receiving gunfire,’ describe how you came to that decision?” Turner asked.
“So, as I was approaching, I saw them taking cover, which means that they were on the north side of their vehicles. Their vehicles were facing west, I’m sorry, (their vehicles were facing) east,” Coronado said. “They were behind the vehicles. And when I got (out of) the vehicle, I could hear gunfire going off. I made my way to where they were at. My first question was: ‘Where was it coming from?’ They said that they didn’t know.”
9:29 a.m. – ″So, you had gunfire, but you didn’t know where it was coming from?” Turner asked.
“No, sir,” Coronado said.
“And the other officers didn’t, at that time, know where it was coming from?” Turner asked.
“No, sir,” Coronado said.
Coronado also noted he didn’t see the crash that was originally called out on police radio earlier in the day.
9:30 a.m. – While outside Robb, Coronado said he heard “yelling” come from the funeral home across the street.
“They’re yelling out, and I couldn’t understand what they were saying,” Coronado told the court. “My concern, at that point, was for them. So, I start yelling at them to, ‘Get back into the building.’ But, as they’re yelling at me, I can hear them saying, ‘He’s running towards the school. He’s running towards the school.’”
9:39 a.m. – Coronado explained his plan to potentially confront the gunman.
“I was thinking, ‘OK. I possibly have an individual that got into an accident and is trying to get away from us — trying to shoot at us. And, I need to find this guy and stop this guy,’” Coronado told the court. “So, when I figured that he was running through the school, I was going to go around in front, cut him off and flank him.”
9:41 a.m. – Coronado saw former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo arrive on the scene at approximately the same time.
“When I saw it was Chief (Pete) Arredondo, I mean, again, I know him personally. I was relieved to see him,” Coronado said, in part. “I was relieved to see him.”
“When you say ‘relieved,’ why does that ‘relieve’ you?” Turner asked.
“Well, it’s just someone that I know,” Coronado said. “It’s just someone that I — I’ve worked with him a number of years, and so, just seeing someone that I knew — it’s not that I didn’t know him, or know anybody else, it’s just — it was just — for some reason, I had someone that was there with me, in other words.”
9:42 a.m. – Coronado and Arredondo began running towards the school.
9:43 a.m. – “He’s (Arredondo) asking me: ‘Where’s he at? Where’s he at?’ I relay back to him, ‘I have no idea. I don’t know,’” Coronado recalled. “At Robb (Elementary) School, there’s a circular drop-off on (at) the very front of the school. And so, we went through the front gate through there, where they (parents/buses) drop off the children. We ran through there and ran underneath the breezeways and ran past the cafeteria and front office (and) continued running and ran down one of the (other) breezeways.”
9:50 a.m. – After hearing gunfire, Coronado told jurors that he instructed two officers “to run inside the building.”
9:51 a.m. – As Coronado instructed, the officers entered the school.
9:53 a.m. – Arredondo, and later, Coronado soon entered the building.
“As I entered the building on the south side, we slowed down a little bit and were quickly walking through the hallways,” Coronado said. “As I’m entering the building, I’m looking around, and the first thing I notice is: the entire hallway is dark. It’s dark. There’s (sic) no lights on. I see what appeared to be smoke.”
12:48 p.m. – Presiding Judge Sid Harle instituted a lunch break for jurors. The jury is expected to return to court at approximately 1:45 p.m.
Judge Sid Harle, who is presiding over the trial of ex-Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales, sits in court on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Corpus Christi. (Pool photo via KSAT)
1:53 p.m. – Jurors reentered the courtroom after the lunch break.
Harle notified the jury that one of their fellow jurors was not in the jury box with them.
“Something’s come up that’s beyond our control,” Harle said. “A juror’s wife has been taken to the hospital over lunch.”
1:54 p.m. – Harle said the juror is currently at the hospital with his wife. Her health status is unclear at this time.
“We do have (juror) alternates, but the problem is: we need to know the exact status (of the juror and the juror’s wife) and his ability to continue to serve before we empanel an alternate under the law,” Harle continued.
The judge said proceedings are expected to resume at 9 a.m. Friday. The juror will have an update on his family emergency at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
Background
Gonzales, 52, is one of two now-former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officers charged with child endangerment regarding the law enforcement response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. Gonzales is facing 29 child endangerment charges: 19 represent the children killed in the shooting, and the other 10 represent the children injured in the shooting.
An 18-year-old gunman also killed two teachers at the school on May 24, 2022.
The other officer, former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo, has yet to go to trial in his child endangerment case. Arredondo is facing 10 child endangerment charges.
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell is prosecuting the Gonzales case, but she appointed Bill Turner as special prosecutor. Turner was the former district attorney in Brazos County.
San Antonio-area attorney and former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood leads Gonzales’ defense team. The team is rounded out by fellow attorneys Jason Goss and Gary Hillier.
In August 2025, Gonzales requested a venue change for the trial.
In the motion, Gonzales’ defense team argued that he cannot receive a fair trial by a jury in Uvalde County due to the impact the massacre had on members of the community.
“This horrific tragedy touched every member of the Uvalde community,” LaHood said at the time. “It would be impossible to gather a jury that would not view the evidence through their own pain and grief.”
In October 2025, LaHood confirmed to KSAT that the trial venue was changed from Uvalde County to Nueces County.
The state is expected to call approximately 60 witnesses to the stand. Court records indicate some of those asked to be witnesses include the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, officers from other responding law enforcement agencies, medical personnel and some parents of school shooting victims.
Child endangerment charges are considered a state jail felony. Upon a potential conviction, Gonzales could be sentenced between six months and two years in a state jail.
Judge Sid Harle is the presiding judge in this case. If convicted, Gonzales also elected to have Harle determine his sentence instead of the jury.
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