Cop's Cross About Uvalde Mass Shooting Prompts Outburst From Victim's Sister

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53:45 Velma Lisa Duran, the sister of slain teacher Irma Garcia, shouts in front of the jury that her sister “went into the fatal funnel." Much of the defense cross-examination of Zavala County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Joe Vasquez in Adrian Gonzales' trial today focused on the law enforcement concept of a "fatal funnel." Gonzales is a former school district police officer accused of 29 counts of child endangerment for not trying to stop the gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. You can watch Vasquez's direct-examination with Prosecutor Bill Turner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDXVwfhn_0 Gonzales' lawyer Nico LaHood questioned him in cross-examination today (Tuesday, January 13, day 5). "We're grateful that your daughter's okay, and thank you for your service." 04:02 "but my point is that's still some distance from the building?" "Oh, yes, sir." "And they still felt the need tactically to take some cover?" "Yes, sir." 06:34 "And the Border Patrol agents, reasonably and tactically, were taking cover over here?" "Yes." "You later knew that the shooting happened here, but they were taking cover over here?" "Yes." 09:08 "But you later found out that those five, those initial five officers, they didn't even think of their own safety. They went in and they subjected themselves not only to this shooter, but to crossfire, correct?" 10:10 "So explain: Why do you need a team to breach a door?" "If you're by yourself, you go by yourself. But if there's enough for a team, you're going to form a team." 11:15 a fatal funnel is "where you're gonna die at the door," Vasquez said 14:20 "can you stand around that so they can see you explain what the complications are to an outward swinging door and a breach?" LaHood asks 17:16 "The reason why it's so dangerous if the threat has a lot of magazines and a high-powered weapon. It doesn't matter if there's 1,000 officers on that side, right? I mean, if you have enough rounds, they're just going to pick them off as they come in, correct?" "Yes." 19:54 "The breach to that door was at 12:50, correct?" "Yes." "It was almost an hour after." "And that wasn't your decision, by the way?" "No." 22:31 "Why did you tell this jury that a car is not going to stop bullets?" 26:41 "If somebody is legally is carrying a weapon and they see someone being attacked with deadly force, I don't need to ask permission to use deadly force to stop the use of deadly force against that third person?" "No, you don't." 31:30 "And then they return fire, and they send that son of a bitch to hell, right?" "Yes, sir." 31:39 Turner up for re-direct 32:08 "Do you wait for three and a half minutes?" "No." "What do you do when you hear the gunfire?" "Approach it, stop it." 35:37 "And did you know Adrian Gonzales?" "I don't know if he recognizes me..." 36:07 "If there's active killing going on, of course you're supposed to stop it." 41:00 Re-cross from LaHood 44:08 "Adrian drove into the to the trouble right? All the way in the southeast corner?" "Yes?" "By himself?" "Right?" "By himself?" "Yes, sir." "Okay. And then you know now that he was one of the first officers, one of the first five in the building?" "Yes, sir." "You know now that he was in a fatal funnel with those first five officers, and two of those officers got shot?" 48-21 re-re-direct from Turner 53:45 Velma Lisa Duran, the sister of slain teacher Irma Garcia, shouts in front of the jury that her sister “went into the fatal funnel." ****************************************************************************** Become a member of Meghann's YouTube channel to show your support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHIOF-rFAeLOnH0ri5F62g/join Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/subscribe Support Meghann on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MeghannCuniff BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/meghanncuniff.bsky.social Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meghannmcuniff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghanncuniff/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meghanncuniff Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meghanncuniff Venmo: MeghannCuniff