On Tuesday, a coroner within the U.Okay. dominated that 23-year-old Lucy Harrison was “unlawfully” shot and killed by her father final yr on the grounds of gross negligence manslaughter, per The Guardian. Lucy’s demise has been below investigation within the U.Okay. since February 2025, a month after she was shot and killed in Texas whereas visiting her father, Kris Harrison, from the U.Okay. In June, a Texas grand jury declined to indict him, however her case remained open within the U.Okay., the place sudden deaths — together with ones that occur overseas — are investigated by particular courts.
Lucy, who was working as a style purchaser for Boohoo, had been staying with Kris in January 2025 when she was discovered lifeless with a single gunshot to the chest following an argument with him. Throughout a two-day listening to at Cheshire Coroner’s Courtroom within the U.Okay. this month, her boyfriend, Sam Littler, testified that Lucy and her father had a strained relationship and argued about Donald Trump the day he shot her.
Littler, who had accompanied her on the journey to the Dallas suburb of Prosper, testified Tuesday that Lucy disliked that her father saved a gun in his dwelling, the place Lucy’s two youthful half-sisters lived. (Kris reportedly maintained that he saved the weapon in the home for “dwelling protection,” and was not required to have a license to personal or carry the gun, per Texas regulation.) Littler additionally stated that Kris had a behavior of taking his gun out of its field and strolling round with it “like James Bond.” In accordance with The Guardian, one among Lucy’s buddies additionally testified that Lucy was “categorically anti-gun” and was frightened about her father’s “volatility.”
In accordance with Littler’s account of the day she died, Lucy was upset as a result of she and her father had gotten into “fairly an enormous argument” about Donald Trump, who was set to be inaugurated as president later that month. Lucy apparently requested her father, who supported Trump, how he’d really feel if she had been one of many women that Trump had allegedly sexually assaulted. Littler stated that Kris responded that he had two different daughters, so it wouldn’t upset him that a lot.
Thirty minutes earlier than they had been set to go to the airport, Littler stated he noticed Kris seize Lucy by the hand in a “mysterious” method and lead her to his bed room, the place he saved his Glock 9-mm. pistol. Littler recalled listening to a loud bang and going to the room, the place he noticed Lucy unresponsive on the ground, with Kris standing above her screaming “nonsense” and calling out for his spouse, Heather. Per The Guardian, when Texas police got here to research, Kris claimed the gun went off by chance when he “lifted it to point out her.”
Whereas Kris Harrison didn’t seem in court docket Tuesday, his lawyer introduced an announcement on his behalf, the place he claimed that Lucy had requested to see his gun. “As I lifted the gun to point out her, I instantly heard a loud bang,” the assertion learn, in keeping with the BBC. “I didn’t perceive what had occurred. Lucy instantly fell.”
After the two-day U.Okay. trial, senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish dominated that Kris, who had been consuming, “knew full effectively he had shot his personal daughter, pointing a gun at chest peak and pulling the set off.” She maintained that as a result of Kris was a “secret drinker,” she believed that he didn’t know the gun was loaded and suspected he’d been taunting Lucy with it when he shot her. She instructed the court docket, “His actions have killed his personal daughter, and within the chilly mild of day it’s hoped that he now acknowledges the danger he posed to her life in circumstances wherein he had no expertise of weapons, had undertaken no coaching, and had by no means fired a gun.”
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