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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[+] 278 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 157 points 6 months 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.

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  • [+] 84 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 65 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    It's perfectly on brand for the USA, really. This uppity woman didn't listen to the man of the house, so he had to wave his gun around to remind her of her place. He was so distraught at his authority being questioned that his gun accidentally went off while it was pointed at his daughter. The guy feels bad, so it's OK. Plus, as he said himself,

    Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it [his daughter being sexually assaulted] would not upset him that much.

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    [–] 200 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    Yeah I was about to post the same shit. That is disgusting that is his fuckin daughter for fuck sake.

    Texas should be nuked without question. That state is not worth saving after they said they wouldn't indicate him.

    Fuckin magats are willing to let their children get raped for the pedo god king trump.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I've been thinking about that for a few minutes now. Does it mean he considers them property which loose value by being raped?

    That reply just doesn't make sense to me.

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  • [–] 136 points 6 months ago (18 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.

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  • [–] 70 points 6 months ago (2 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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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    I"m giving that piece of shit A LOT of leeway by assuming he wasn't purposefully pointing the gun at her and rather just holding it to show. (That's cutting about ten miles of slack.) If that's what he was doing (doubtful) then he should not have had his finger on the trigger.

    My gut tells me that his MAGA poisoned brain, having the impulse control impaired by alcohol, pointed the gun at her and his finger twitched, because deep down he wanted to "kill the b!t¢h" that dared insult his god emperor. The bang instantly sobered him up and broke his hateful trance. That's when he started cryring for mommy his wife.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, there is perhaps no pistol more known for unequivocally not firing unless the trigger is fully pressed from the center. There are in fact three different independent safeties in a glock. Man murdered his daughter, I do not accept complete ignorance of firearm use as a defense for someone who owns a gun and chose to pull out a loaded weapon and point it at someone.

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    [–] 116 points 6 months ago (3 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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  • [–] 59 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    In religiously paternalistic Texas, killing one’s own children is a God-given biblical right.

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    [–] 115 points 6 months ago (2 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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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Man shoots daughter dead and everyone’s just okay with it because she didn’t like Trump?!

    It's like South Asian "honor" murders where women are killed for even the most trivial matters.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Literally, these are honor killings. Full stop. Take a look at the gender makeup of these anti-ICE protests and then take a look at the ICE goons.

    It's patriarchy, and people fighting patriarchy. It's always been about white guys feeling terrified of their power eroding, and since white patriarchy has no coherent acceptable response other than rage, their first resort is everyone else's last resort.

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    [–] 114 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 60 points 6 months 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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    [–] 113 points 6 months ago (30 children)

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

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    [–] 88 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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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    [–] 74 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So they’re doing honor killings now?

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  • [+] 65 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago* (9 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.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months 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.

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    [–] 56 points 6 months 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?

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  • [–] 51 points 6 months 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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    [–] 23 points 6 months ago

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

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