Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

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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    They went into the bedroom so he could show her a Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun which he kept in the bedside cabinet.

    Harrison said he had bought the gun a couple of years before because he wanted a “sense of security” for his family.

    He denied ever discussing it with his daughter before.

    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.”

    So, Glocks don’t have a manual safety. And dipshit amateur gun owners who don’t like a heavy trigger pull will periodically modify (or simply buy a modified) version of the weapon with a light trigger. This makes the gun easy to misfire. Add to that, the habit of paranoid owners keeping the gun loaded and chambered, because they think cocking a gun is the difference between life or death.

    Very real possibility this was an accident or - at most - involuntary manslaughter on behalf of the father.

    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.

    Littler said Lucy became “quite upset” and ran upstairs.

    As someone who lives in Texas and knows this exact kind of person, the elements laid out in the article make it sound like this guy was a clueless, tactless asshole who thought he could just laugh and hand-wave his way through a political conversation. His daughter is dead because he was treating his gun like a toy, not because he was in some kind of heated argument over Trump.