Intense body camera visuals have unveiled the harrowing sequence of events in which an intoxicated father in Texas tragically shot his daughter amid a heated discussion about Donald Trump.
Kris Harrison, who avoided manslaughter charges after inadvertently killing his 23-year-old daughter, Lucy Harrison, last year, recounted to authorities that he produced a Glock 9mm pistol after she inquired if he possessed a firearm.
“She asked, ‘Do you have a gun?’ and I confirmed, ‘Yes.’ As I withdrew it, it discharged, striking her as she stood there,” Harrison recounted in a video released by Cheshire Coroner’s Court.
Lucy had traveled from the UK and was fatally shot in the chest on January 10, 2025, at her father’s residence in Prosper, a suburb located roughly 35 miles from Dallas.
Kris Harrison, who emigrated to the United States during Lucy’s childhood, later admitted to being an alcoholic, having relapsed and consumed three glasses of wine on the day of the incident, according to the BBC.
In the footage, he explained to police that he retrieved the gun—typically stored in a locked box within a bedside cabinet—just as Lucy was preparing to return to the UK.
“We took it out to look, and just as I picked it up, it went off,” he said, noting it “must have been” loaded.
Lucy Harrison’s devastated boyfriend, Sam Littler, can be seen in the clip holding his hands on his head as Harrison speaks with police.
Littler later told a court the dad and daughter had a “big argument” about Trump, who was about to be inaugurated for his second term at the time. The two frequently fought about her father’s conservative politics, he said.
Kris Harrison was initially being investigated by cops for possible manslaughter charges, but he got off scot-free after a Texas County grand jury chose not to indict him.
The father and his daughter argued about guns the day of the shooting, Harrison claimed in a statement read in court on his behalf last week, after he chose not to attend the two-day hearing.
“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 at Cheshire Coroner’s Court.
But the fact that Lucy was shot through the chest from across the bedroom showed that the testimony from Harrison, described as a “functioning alcoholic,” was false, senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish said last week.
“To shoot her 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,” she said.
“I accept he was a teaser, and on the balance of probabilities, this is what he was doing. I accept he did not realize the gun was loaded,” the senior coroner added.
Harrison suffered an alcoholic seizure in 2023, leaving him in an induced coma.
He had gulped down a 17-ounce carton of white wine the day he killed Lucy, but did not believe he was drunk when he shot his daughter shortly before 3 p.m. that day.
Lucy’s death was ruled accidental by a Texas grand jury last June — a decision her mom, Jane Coates, called “baffling” and “beyond comprehension.”
