CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) \u2014 In the crucial, chaotic minutes after a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, began firing inside an elementary school, a police officer now accused of failing to protect the children stood by without making a move to stop the carnage, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.<\/p>\n
School officer Adrian Gonzales<\/a> arrived at the scene of one of the deadliest school shootings<\/a> in U.S. history while the teenage assailant was still outside the building. 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