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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.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

nothing new. for texhas

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

"YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT MY FAVORITE PEDOPHILE LIKE THAT!!!"

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

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?

[–] ARANDOMTURKISHGUY@lemmy.world 59 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

What is going on earth? İs this real? Did he shoot his daughter because of Trump?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 22 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 29 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I did not understand what had happened.

Maybe he shouldn't be allowed to own guns, just a thought.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

If you accidentally killed somebody with a gun, you probably aren't well regulated enough to be a militia.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 31 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

His finger was absolutely on the trigger, and he pulled it. Glocks don't just go off. They're pretty well engineered.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 19 hours ago

I don't think it was negligence, I think it was murder that he played off as negligence.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 19 hours ago

Wow sounds like he really won that argument huh

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

Maybe he is. They should have still brought charges against him.

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[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 16 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (8 children)

WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT? This total bullshit hang that motherfucking dad from a fucking tree.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago

A jury of many beers

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] alternategait@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

Texas is a shithole and they only people who don't realize it have lived there their entire lives.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

They were all cleaning their guns at the time.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT?

Grand jury: We protect one of our own.

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[–] nollataulu@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
  • 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.

...

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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Accidentally robbed a bank

Accidentally killed a few politicians

Accidentally speared pedophile cultists

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 187 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The article gets way worse, "Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row:

"How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?"

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much. "

Holy fucking shit.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Trump supporters are not good people

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they’re doing honor killings now?

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 107 points 1 day ago (20 children)

PSA: Avoid Texas, it's never safe. It's like Florida.

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