Trajectory Rods Show Shooter Fired DOWNWARD At Children Under Desks | Uvalde Trial Week 1

Crime scene evidence presented in the Adrian Gonzales trial this week showed exactly how the Robb Elementary shooter killed children who were trying to hide. Former Texas Ranger Juan Torrez testified that investigators placed pink and yellow trajectory rods into bullet cavities throughout Room 111. The rods demonstrated the gunman fired downward — through the desks — at students sheltering underneath.

Jurors saw photographs showing pools of blood on the classroom floor, drag marks where bodies were removed, dried bloodstains on desks and textbooks, and a child's tennis shoe covered in blood. Judge Sid Harle warned the gallery before the images appeared: "These photographs are going to be shocking and gruesome." No family members left. They passed tissues and watched in silence for more than an hour.

Then came Arnulfo Reyes. The only surviving teacher from Room 111 told the jury he saw a "black shadow" appear in his doorway, watched fire come from the gun, took a bullet to his arm, and collapsed. He lay on the ground and listened as the shooter killed all eleven of his students. The gunman taunted him, splashed blood on his face, and shot him again in the back while he pretended to be dead. He waited 77 minutes for rescue.

Defense attorney Nico LaHood confronted Reyes about the unlocked classroom door. Whose responsibility was it to lock that door? Reyes admitted it was his. The defense is building a case that failures extended far beyond Adrian Gonzales — to the school, to security protocols, to everyone involved that day.

Texas Rangers also established what they called a "fatal funnel" — a hallway configuration with no cover that made tactical approach extremely dangerous. This trial is testing a question American courts have rarely answered: can an officer be criminally liable not for what he did, but for what he failed to do?

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