Texas Ranger Lt. Nick Hill's Entire Cross-Exam Day 1 In Uvalde School Officer's Trial

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Texas Ranger Lt. Nick Hill will continue testifying in former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales' child endangerment trial on Monday. He was on the witness stand all day today (Friday, January 16). You can watch his direct-examination with Prosecutor Bill Turner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP7BhwRiksI Defense attorney Nico LaHood questioned Hill for about 2 1/2 hours. This video is all of it. “I’m gonna push back on you a little bit, but I want to give you a head’s up. I'm not trying to be disrespectful. I'm not attacking your character, but I'm going to attack your opinions and your and your perceptions. Okay, if you don't understand my question, you just tell me, ‘Nico, just repeat that.’ Or, ‘I don't understand that,’ and I'm happy to do that.” 03:04 “So you did review Gilbert Limones interview?” “Correct, yes.” “Okay, and part of that interview … you had to reconcile what he said to his 911 call?” (Limones is the pastor who works at the funeral home across from the school. You can watch him testify here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B10UYsJg-WU) 08:53 “So this is pretty detailed description of what Mr. Limon es was telling the dispatcher almost four minutes before, before this shooter entered the school, right?” “Correct?” 14:06 “If you wait and eventually relay important critical information, it could get people killed in a situation like this.” 24:14 “So he doesn't enter the building. He's dispatched before more than three minutes before the this animal enters the school before but doesn't enter the building for almost 25 minutes later?” “That's correct.” 25:05 of the animated map: “The whole thing is your opinion based off information. I'm not saying you're making it up. It's based off your information, right?” “The animation is not my opinion. I have no opinion.” 25:36 not based on my opinion, based on investigative analysis” “which is based off your opinion.Judge, he's being tricky, and I'm trying to ask him specific questions. I know they don't like the answer.” 28:47 “Did you put in your animation that he was hiding between two cars?” “He did walk between two cars.” “Did you put that in your animation?” “Yes.” 35:44 “I’m not Officer Hill. I didn't speak with him. I don't know what he was running towards. I just know that he was running towards the fourth grade building with other officers,” Lt. Hill testifies. 40:55 “Let's compare Hill to Gonzales. They both have the same information. Gonzales drives into the scene, towards someone running that he thought could have a gun.” 51:32 “He's trying to observe and orient himself, and then maybe getting he's getting shot at. He doesn't know where this fire is coming from, correct?” “Correct.” “And one minute and four seconds later, the shooter is in the building, right?” “Yes.” “And once the shooter is in the building, Adrian doesn't know when he went into the building. There's no evidence that shows that, right?” “Correct.” “Because he's on the southeast side. There's no line of sight, correct?” “Correct.” 59:15 “From Adrian gets on the scene to him shooting the classrooms. It's a minute 26 seconds.” LaHood says 01:06:11 “And you know now that Adrian, all he had was a sidearm, because the school district did not, the school police did not issue long rifles to their police officers?” “Yes.” “These three officers had better opportunity and had the ability to engage a shooter that happened to be on their side.” “I disagree. … I'm not going to say they have less or more opportunity, but there was means an opportunity available to Mr. Gonzales.” 01:17:39 Hill: “because you have cover on this building in this area right here, even with a handgun, an officer can come down here to gather additional information. And this is the opportunity that was available to the first officer, to Mr. Gonzales.” 01:25:18 "Coronado, Saucedo and Mendoza ... Do they have a better opportunity and ability than Adrian Gonzales?" "No." 01:39:10 "The shooting is taking place here, and they are relocating from here to here. So it's in the general direction," Hill testifies 01:47:55 "hen Mendoza, Saucedo and Coronado were at the corner, correct. Had any shooting happened inside? "At that point, no." "That was my point. Zero shot that happened in room 111 and room 12, when those three officers were at the corner with line of sight, right?" "Correct." 02:06:22 "They were right there. And at some point in that time, Saucedo asked to shoot that guy. At some point, we don't know when, right? But before he made it into the school, right?" "Correct." ****************************************************************************** Read Meghann's article about the first week of testimony: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/trial-for-texas-school-cop-over-mass Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/subscribe