A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.
Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas.
Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old’s death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.
An inquest into Lucy Harrison’s death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the “big argument” about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.
- Accidentally took the daughter in the downstairs bedroom.
- Accidentally produced a gun.
- Accidentally loaded it.
- Accidentally pointed it at the daughter.
Accidentally flicked the safety off.Apparently it was a Glock- Accidentally pulled the trigger.
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Color me suspicious but even if all that was just a series of unlucky coincidences, that man should be kept away from all guns for the rest of his life. At the very minimum.
Accidentally robbed a bank
Accidentally killed a few politicians
Accidentally speared pedophile cultists
He told the court that later that day, about half an hour before they were due to leave to go to the airport, Lucy had been in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom. Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds later and then Kris Harrison screamed for his wife, Heather.
Jesus fucking Christ he fucking executed her
Do not argue about politics with the people you are close. It is hard to change their mind, and conflicts happen. Argue with the people that you dont care.
This is how you get fascist into power. People are too scared to convince their family and friends to do the right thing and vote against extremism. You’d rather go out and harass strangers instead of convince the people who are present in your life.
If they are eager to hear you, you can obviously talk to them, but when it becomes a fight, it will just be a waste of time.
Nah, they fascis who support a pedophile. They need to know they stupid, wrong, and dangerous.
Seeing as like two cases of illegal immigrants killing pretty white girls is being constantly used as justification of deporting all illegal immigrants, does this mean we can use this as justification of deporting all MAGA supporters?
Texas Roid Rage and the idiots believe life is cheap and guns will solve all their problems.
nothing new. for texhas
What is going on earth? İs this real? Did he shoot his daughter because of Trump?
Sunk-cost fallacy.
Trumpers don’t want to admit to themselves or each other that they’ve been duped, so they just keep digging their hole deeper.
Trump supporter=Erdogan supporter i think.
Sort of like the “Russia Russia Russia” people …
Oh no, sorry, the Russian that lives inside my washing machine just showed me a gif, and now my eyes are like those cartoon spirals of hypnotized people!
Send help!!
What the article says is they disagreed on guns and argued about Trump. They went into his room to look at his 9mm glock and according to him the gun went of and he didn’t realize his finger was on the trigger. He relapsed to alcohol and was drunk at the time.
He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”
Harrison said he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger.
Wow sounds like he really won that argument huh
I bet he’s telling the truth. Which is all kinds of even sadder than if he had shot her out of rage for a disagreement.
Maybe he is. They should have still brought charges against him.
I did not understand what had happened.
Maybe he shouldn’t be allowed to own guns, just a thought.
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Too soon man, too soon
If you accidentally killed somebody with a gun, you probably aren’t well regulated enough to be a militia.
We’ll never know the truth.
I shoot pretty often, and handguns are notoriously inaccurate. So I think he may very well have shot her in anger and fabricated this afterwards. Also it she was against guns, why would she follow someone, who is intoxicated, into another room, to look at one‽
This story is fishy as fuck.
His finger was absolutely on the trigger, and he pulled it. Glocks don’t just go off. They’re pretty well engineered.
Yeah. A Taurus or a Sig, maybe. Not a Glock. There’s a reason they’re so popular. They reliably fire when the trigger is pulled and only when the trigger is pulled.
Even if it was a Sig, it was only older model P322s that had that problem. Pistols firing without pulling the trigger isn’t nearly as common as people (including, apparently, this jury) believe.
Also the P320 - which was adopted as the new standard-issue handgun for the US military.
The Air Force actually suspended their use for a few months last year after one went off uncommanded and killed an airman. They inspected them and found that over 2% were already in unsafe condition after being adopted just 5 years earlier.
And the civilan version is worse and in the middle of several lawsuits. And this is after they were recalled for not being drop-safe.
On the trigger or not, that’s exactly why you never “show” someone a loaded gun. Unless we are at a range and we’ve already done all the safety training and I feel that you’ve got a grasp of it, I’m not keeping a loaded gun in my hands around anyone I don’t plan on shooting.
It was pure negligence. Plain and simple. And now his daughter is dead. Accident or not, he ignored the rules and someone died from that negligence.
I don’t think it was negligence, I think it was murder that he played off as negligence.
He was drunk and had a gun… How American.
He said it was an accident. I think a different article I read on this said he went back to treatment for alcoholism after this. This kinda suggests he was too drunk to remember. The other article noted the dad is not the one that called the ambulance which would more commonly be the case in an accidental shooting. But if he was drunk idk.
Boy howdy are my lawyers gonna have a time with anything I post here.
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“YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT MY FAVORITE PEDOPHILE LIKE THAT!!!”
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Low quality bait
Dude what
WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT? This total bullshit hang that motherfucking dad from a fucking tree.
After they have witnesses of him telling her he didn’t care if she got raped!
Texas, I swear to God. I am from there, all of my family is there. My daughters adore their cousins and beg to move there. Absolutely not.
My MAGA Dad raised his hand like he was going to hit me at Christmas during a political discussion. I was shocked. He is old and feeble, so I told him I would hit him back.
I have an acquaintance whose husband wants to move to Texas, and like not a major city in Texas. I have some serious side eye for the whole situation.
I’m on the fence on this one. How old are they?
On the visit home over Christmas, the idea crossed my mind of retiring there, and I got fairly homesick. I miss the arid, rugged climate. I hate the cold. Being close to family would be nice, and Texas could use more hard-headed, angry liberals. But it’s too dangerous until my uterus is old and broken down and while I’m responsible for other people with functional or soon-to-be-functional uterii. Texas also has water shortage on the near-term horizon from shitty resource management, so it’s best to wait and see where that goes.
But my point is, everyone wants to go home to die, right?
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She had elementary school children (including a daughter).
Texas is a shithole and they only people who don’t realize it have lived there their entire lives.
WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT?
Grand jury: We protect one of our own.
It’s clear the DA has a motive to mislead them.
A jury of peers
And risk breaking a branch? There’s a perfectly good gun right there!
This is next level disturbing.
This is Texas
They were all cleaning their guns at the time.
Texas. Not even once.
So they’re doing honor killings now?
Y’all Qaeda and the most excellent Yee-hawd.
It was a negligent discharge unrelated to the argument. This is a shitty article title and dad is a shitty gun owner and shitty dad tbf, but it wasnt political thing. You can really tell in the comments who read the whole article and who just started commenting. Even the summary doesn’t cover it right.
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Rather than keep rewriting, this dude is an asshole, however:
- There was no indictment by grand jury. That means they went through jury selection and heard evidence and a majority of the jurors were not convinced. Counsel for defense AND prosecution agree to jurors, so it’s not like it’s a maga convention or a police department.
- 500 mL of wine (if verified) is 2/3 of a bottle, not drunk alcoholic rage quantity see 1. If he blew like 0.4, it seems to me it would be reported as part of the article.
- The guy bought one gun and is a Brit, not a born and raised gun toting southerner.
- Reasonable doubt. While I’m as big an antifer as the next guy on Lemmy, nothing good comes from jumping to conclusions and misrepresenting the facts of the situation by sensationalizing the title or not putting all the information in the summary. Again, see 1.
500 mL of wine (if verified) is 2/3 of a bottle, not drunk alcoholic rage quantity see 1. If he blew like 0.4, it seems to me it would be reported as part of the article.
Different people have different tolerances. Personally, I can be completely knocked out by that much wine if I don’t pace myself
Reasonable doubt. While I’m as big an antifer as the next guy on Lemmy, nothing good comes from jumping to conclusions and misrepresenting the facts of the situation by sensationalizing the title or not putting all the information in the summary. Again, see 1.
Let’s read the article
He told the court that later that day, about half an hour before they were due to leave to go to the airport, Lucy had been in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom. Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds later and then Kris Harrison screamed for his wife, Heather.
Literally right before they leave he physically leads her to the bedroom and shoots her. Reeks of honor killing
You can think whatever you like. It doesn’t seem cut and dry, even by known and overwhelming prevalence of Texas honor killings and alcoholics who are overwhelmed by 2 glasses of wine.
Indistinguishable facts from just an inexperienced idiot gun owner.
It was cold-blooded murder. The article is factual.
Then you apparently didn’t read it.
Pretty sure I did. An alcoholic man and a young woman enter an enclosed space. The man is a self-avowed pro-rape psychopath who confesses to shooting the young woman for no reason.
Whether it was an accident is dubious and irrelevant. She’s dead, he had a motive and no remorse.
Case closed.
Or can we kill whoever we want and claim it was an accident? Ridiculous.
As a lifelong shooter, I am extremely dubious of the man’s claims, he sounds guilty AF.
And as someone who is also an expert on raging alcoholic fathers from the South with poor firearm control, I firmly believe the guy is just a raging asshole with no impulse control and a heart full of hate, and he let the feelings win and decided to end his daughter in rage.
This. Sounds like we grew up in similar environments, and I’m with you. Sleazy weasel-fucking bastards that shouldn’t have ever evolved lungs will use what breath they’ve stolen from perfectly deserving cockroaches and millipedes to excuse their ‘indiscretions’.
Depends.
Was it a p320?
If it was, then its entirely reasonable and possible.
if not, then 99% chance he shot her for insulting his god emperor.
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The P320 thing is extremely overblown.
With some shitty tolerances a given model can be made to discharge when the slide is manipulated in a specific way with significant force. That is proven fact and I’m not disputing it.
But a lot of the claims purport to have had this happen in controlled circumstances with no force or evidence of shitty tolerances, and is just as likely negligent people being stupid and seeing the P320 criticism as a likely skapegoat.
Someone said it was a Glock but I can’t find details. Since it was a year ago that it actually happened it’s likely there’s news or depositions out there that gave more details. Either way the guy had been drinking boxes of wine, so it was either drunken rage, or drunken drunk.
The article literally says it’s a Glock 9mm. It also says 2 500 mL boxes whoch he claims to have had 1. That’s like 2/3 a bottle, not like a box of franzia. I appreciate being a lifelong shooter (me too), but this was the dudes first gun, and he’s a British immigrant as an adult. All of it taken together, yeah seems like reasonable doubt to me.
You could find the details by reading the whole article.
the article is behind a paywall you contentious dip, I had to check other sites, I am not committing my day to researching the gun type, because that’s not as relevant as most of the ammosexuals in here want to make it. Chill the fuck out. If it’s that important for him to be innocent of deliberate action for you, go send him a cake or more boxes of wine or something.
Get a better ad blocker, I don’t pay for BBC and I can see the whole thing. Also don’t be a twat, there’s no need for it.
Also don’t be a twat, there’s no need for it.
You could find the details by reading the whole article.
You’re not the main character here. Bye.
Do you seriously believe that guys story
“He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”
An alcoholic POS who recently relapsed and said he wouldn’t care that his daughter was raped is now drunk and showed her a gun and it just went off for no reason and he couldn’t remember if his finger was on the trigger…
Give me a fucking break… he called her into the room and shot her and made up a story afterwards
You can believe whatever you like, but the title of the article should match the content, and you should read the content before you decide. It sounds like you did read it so good on you.
Based on my read of it, there’s definitely enough reasonable doubt that I’m not comfortable saying this guy murdered his daughter based on the content provided. I updated my original comment to say why.
He pointed a loaded, cocked firearm, and pulled the trigger with a minimum of 5 pounds of force
reasonable doubt that it was a premeditated murder I will buy
Reasonable doubt that he committed manslaughter, no chance
And considering his quote saying he wouldn’t be too upset if she was raped because he has two other daughters I think the title is accurate…
