A 23-year-old British woman who was shot and killed while visiting her father in Texas had reportedly argued with him about Donald Trump just hours before her death, according to testimony revealed during a U.K. inquest.
Lucy Harrison, from Warrington, England, was fatally shot in the chest at her father’s home in Prosper, Texas, in January 2025. At the time, local authorities said she sustained a single gunshot wound and the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide.
However, the BBC reported that a Collin County grand jury later declined to indict her father, Kris Harrison, and no criminal charges were filed in the United States.
Now, new details have emerged overseas.
During an inquest held Wednesday, Feb. 11, in England, Cheshire Coroner Jacqueline Devonish ruled that Lucy died as a result of unlawful killing on the grounds of gross negligence manslaughter, according to the BBC.
Lucy had been visiting the U.S. with her boyfriend, Sam Littler. He testified that the couple had traveled to Texas for a holiday and were preparing to fly back to the United Kingdom on the very day she was killed.
Littler told the court that Lucy and her father had a “big” argument earlier that morning about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for a second term as U.S. president, the BBC reported.
According to his testimony, Lucy often became upset when her father discussed owning a gun. During the argument, Littler claimed Lucy asked her father how he would feel if she were the victim of sexual assault. He testified that her father responded by saying he had two other daughters living with him and that it would not upset him that much.
Littler said Lucy became visibly distressed and ran upstairs.
About 30 minutes before the couple was set to leave for the airport, Lucy was in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom, Littler told the court.
Roughly 15 seconds later, he said he heard a loud bang followed by Lucy’s father screaming for his wife. When Littler ran into the room, he testified that Lucy was lying on the floor near the bathroom entrance.
In announcing her conclusion, Coroner Devonish said that to shoot Lucy “through the chest whilst she was standing would have required him to have been pointing the gun at his daughter, without checking for bullets, and pulling the trigger.”
“I find these actions to be reckless,” she wrote, according to the BBC.
Lucy’s father did not attend the inquest in the U.K., but a statement from him was read aloud in court.
In the statement, he said he and his daughter had been watching a news segment about gun crime when he told her he owned a firearm and asked if she wanted to see it. He said they went into the bedroom so he could show her a handgun kept in a bedside cabinet.
He told the court he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger when he removed the weapon and said he did not understand how it discharged, the BBC reported.
According to the outlet, he also acknowledged a past struggle with alcohol addiction and admitted he had relapsed the day of the shooting, drinking approximately 500 milliliters of white wine earlier that day. A responding police officer testified that she smelled alcohol on his breath.
ITV reported that CCTV footage shown during the inquest indicated he had purchased two cartons of Chardonnay from a convenience store earlier that afternoon.
BBC will use this to their benefit which is lying
You created a false headline which after reading article is a lie and a false accusation. You should be fired. This type of reporting is what provokes hate without truth.
This story makes no sense. So was she arguing with him against owning a gun or for owning a gun? Also what does that have to do with a possibility of her being sexually assulted? Would that be the reason for owning a gun? What does owning a gun have to do with President Trump being inaugurated? I think AI can do a better job writting these stories.