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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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[–] kingshrubb@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ARANDOMTURKISHGUY@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 25 points 1 day 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 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I did not understand what had happened.

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago (5 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 21 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago

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

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

He was drunk and had a gun.. How American.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago

Wow sounds like he really won that argument huh

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 10 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day 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 113 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 days ago (5 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.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 20 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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[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 276 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

possible manslaughter

beyond doomed country

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 156 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Couldn't even get a grand jury indictment. No doubt the local yokels closed ranks. Made up some nonsense about it being an accident.

[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 84 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

morbidly curious about whether the piece of shit feels any guilt at all about killing his daughter over a conman… what the fuck am i saying of course he doesn’t he probably posted about it on facebook and the 50 different bots with a bald men with sunglasses pfp all 😂😂😂 reacted and he felt like he saved his country or whatever

edit: I read the article this was blatantly a murder by an alcoholic magat what the FUCK. like who is actually buying this?? he had a big argument with his daughter and then just “wanted to show her his new handgun”??? death to amerikkka

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminder that the people who lynched Ahmaud Arbery almost got away with it until they were stupid enough to release the footage of the murder, thinking it would exonerate them and people would call them heroes. Over two months with no arrests.

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[–] nollataulu@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 198 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 141 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Trump supporters are not good people

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 113 points 2 days ago (30 children)

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

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

nothing new. for texhas

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So they’re doing honor killings now?

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

Y'all Qaeda and the most excellent Yee-hawd.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Man shoots daughter dead and everyone's just okay with it because she didn't like Trump?! The fuck is going on down there? How have you existed as a country this long?!

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 136 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Harrison said he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger.

I do not like Glocks. Quite simply, I prefer pistols with a manual safety which Glocks do not have. That said, a Glock WILL NOT FIRE unless your finger is on the trigger. A Glock's safety mechanism is on the trigger itself.

If you are going to own a firearm, GO TO TRAINING. Trigger discipline should be muscle memory so that even piss drunk you keep your finger off the goddamn trigger until youbare ready to pull. If the guy was trained in firearm use, then he 100% murdered his daughter on purpose.

MAGA is a cult and its members are mentally ill.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Don't aim a gun at anything you don't want to destroy"

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[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 70 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Yeah, if you are going to checks notes point your gun at your daughter, at least have some goddamn checks notes trigger discipline!

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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 116 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Dude admitted he was an alcoholic who had already had a bottle of wine before the shooting, and they couldn't get a manslaughter charge to at least go to trial? Being drunk and accidentally killing someone is manslaughter.

This country is so fucked up.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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?

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you ever noticed how the right always says the "left went too far" and somehow manages to push their argument by pointing to a single tweet or headline? Why doesnt that work against them too?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 days ago

They don’t give a shit about words or truth, they just yell and invent when they don’t get their way until everyone does what they want because they are the smart ones who know better, which is why they need to kill everyone who doesn’t agree with them and say it’s because that’s what we want

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