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

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

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days 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 31 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 34 points 3 days ago (4 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 3 days 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 21 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago

Wow sounds like he really won that argument huh

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 10 points 3 days 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.

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[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days 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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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 184 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 132 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Trump supporters are not good people

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago

This is how I know he murdered his own daughter.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 days ago

I chose to be homeless at 19 because I was terrified my stepdad would find out I'd been raped and kill me for not being a virgin any more.

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days 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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 106 points 3 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 56 points 3 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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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT?

Grand jury: We protect one of our own.

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[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Texas. Not even once.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

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

[–] nollataulu@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 107 points 4 days ago (20 children)

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

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 108 points 4 days 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?!

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days 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.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 109 points 4 days 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.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 57 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 days ago

Unless they’re unborn! There is nothing more sacred than an unborn baby. Born babies can get discarded, though.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

She was slandering Dorito Jesus, if anything he's a hero.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So they’re doing honor killings now?

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago

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

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 53 points 3 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 47 points 3 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

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because they don't care about evidence or facts unless it fits into their narrative.

You can point to posts advocating for violence or censorship coming from their ilk and they'll just attribute it back to the other side because "we wouldn't need to if they didn't do it to us first." It's just the abuser justification, "look at what you made me do".

Or they will just outright deny reality, dismissing opposing evidence as conspiracies, exaggerated, or misunderstood. Did Elon really do a Nazi salute? "No, no. He was just sending his heart out to Americans!"

And when there's overwhelming evidence that they can't do mental gymnastics around? They shut down the conversation. They stop talking about it. They ignore it. They bury it. Out of sight, out of mind.

When someone is indoctrinated into that way of thinking and makes their politics a part of their personality, you are not going to beat them at their own game. Their sense of identity is tied to their beliefs and their ego will not let them accept anything that goes against those beliefs. They need to be deprogrammed.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 49 points 4 days ago (11 children)
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[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boy howdy are my lawyers gonna have a time with anything I post here.

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