MORE: Sparks fly at Uvalde school board forum as community demands transparency, accountability "He told the children around him to run away," according to the committee's report. Gonzales, who was interviewed by the investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety, said he was walking to the campus parking lot to leave the school when he heard a gunshot and then heard another school coach on his two-way radio reporting gunshots being fired, according to the committee. "The officers testified to the Committee that it turned out that the person they had seen dressed in black was not the attacker, but instead it was Robb Elementary Coach Abraham Gonzales," the committee wrote in its report. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP, FILE)īut the officer who made the request to fire told the committee Coronado didn't have an opportunity to respond before they heard on their radios the attacker was running toward the school. PHOTO: Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. He considered the risk of shooting a child, and he quickly recalled his training that officers are responsible for every round that goes downrange," according to the committee's report.īy the time the officer looked back, the man whom he asked permission to shoot was no longer in his sights, according to the committee's report. "He (Coronado) knew there were children present. Coronado for permission to shoot."Ĭoronado testified to the committee that he heard the officer's request, but "hesitated" on answering him, according to the committee's report.
Thinking that the person dressed in black was the attacker, he raised his rifle and asked Sgt. "Then, at a distance exceeding 100 yards, he saw a person dressed in black, also running away. That officer saw children dressed in bright colors in the playground, all running away," according to the committee's report. "One of the officers testified to the Committee that based on the sound of echoes, he believed the shooter had fired in their direction. MORE: 5 major details from committee's Uvalde mass shooting report The committee found that the unnamed officer and Coronado both heard gunfire when they arrived at the school around the same time.
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Uvalde:365 is a continuing ABC News series reported from Uvalde and focused on the Texas community and how it forges on in the shadow of tragedy.īut during its 44-day investigation of the rampage that left 19 students and two teachers dead, the joint committee of the Texas Legislature interviewed both the officer and his sergeant, who the committee's report identified as Daniel Coronado of the Uvalde Police Department, and deemed the training center account inaccurate. It noted that had the situation "worked out differently," the officer could have "stopped the tragedy that followed." "A reasonable officer would conclude in this case, based upon the totality of the circumstances, that use of deadly force was warranted," the training center report said. PHOTO: Parents and family hold protest signs during a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District where parents addressed last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School, on July 18, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.
The initial account that the officer had an opportunity to shoot the gunman outside the school - widely covered by news media outlets, including ABC News - was part of an assessment of the police response made public on July 6 by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University in San Marcos. Instead, the committee found that the officer was aiming at a school coach helping students get out of harm's way and that the cop mistaking the coach for the suspect had requested permission to pull the trigger from his sergeant, who hesitated when he saw children in the line of fire, according to the committee. The joint committee of the Texas Legislature, which released the findings of its investigation on Sunday of the May 24 massacre, found that a Uvalde police officer did not have the gunman in the crosshairs of his rifle scope before he entered the school.
The special committee investigating the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, dismissed a report that a police officer had an opportunity to shoot the gunman before he entered the school.
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