Texas father who allegedly fatally shot daughter after argument over Trump walks free due to lack of evidence

A Texas man who shot and killed his daughter after an argument about President Trump, will not face charges.

Kris Harrison admitted that he was a relapsed alcoholic and had three glasses of wine when he shot his 23 year old daughter in his home on Jan 10 in Prosper TX, about 35 miles north of Dallas. His daughter, Lucy Harrison was visiting from the UK at the time, where the father, Kris, had moved from when Lucy was a child.  

Initially the case was being investigated as possible manslaughter, but a Collin County grand jury ultimately decided not to indict the father.

Lucy’s boyfriend Sam Littler had traveled to the US with her, and told the court that the father and daughter had a “big argument” about Trump before his second term started. The father had purchased a Glock 9mm handgun a few years earlier, Littler said, and that Lucy often “bristled at her father’s conservative leanings,” according to the New York Post. 

Littler said that the argument started when Lucy brought up a scenario about a woman being assaulted and asked her father “how would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” The father apparently answered that it wouldn’t upset him that much because he had two other daughters. This made Lucy “quite upset” and she abruptly went upstairs. 

Later that same day, just prior to Lucy and her boyfriend leaving for the airport, the father led her into his downstairs bedroom, when just 15 seconds later, Littler revealed hearing a loud bang, and the father began screaming for his wife, Heather.

“I remember running into the room and Lucy was lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom and Kris was just screaming, just sort of nonsense,” Littler said.

The father stated to police that he had offered to show his daughter his gun after watching a segment on the news about gun violence. He reportedly had “no prior experience and no formal training” and had never fired the gun, according to the Daily Mail. 

“As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell,” he said. He admitted that he could not remember whether or not his finger was on the trigger. 

Police officer Luciana Escalera reported that she smelled alcohol on the father’s breath when she responded to the call. 

In a statement from his attorney, Kris said that he “fully accepted” the consequences of his action, saying that “there isn’t a day I don’t feel the weight of that loss, a weight I will carry for the rest of my life.”

Lucy’s mother, Jane Coates described the decision as “baffling” and “beyond comprehension,” and said that her daughter was a “real force of life. She cared. She was passionate about things.” She added that her daughter “loved to have debates about things that meant a lot to her.”