Body camera reveals moment Texas police arrive after British dad shot dead his daughter ‘after arguing about Trump’
Dramatic body camera footage captured the moment Texas police arrived at the home of a British man who fatally shot his daughter after arguing about President Donald Trump.
Fashion buyer Lucy Harrison, 23, of Warrington, Cheshire, was shot in the chest while visiting her father Kris Harrison and family in the Dallas suburb of Prosper on January 10, 2025.
Footage released by Cheshire Coroner’s Court showed Kris Harrison telling a police officer that he and his daughter were “talking about guns” as they prepared to go to the airport.
“’Do you have a gun?’ he said. So I said yes, I took it out and it just exploded and it just stood there, like it exploded as I was taking it out,” Harrison told police last year in footage released by Cheshire Coroner’s Court.
“I immediately put it on the bed,” he added. “It was in the nightstand. It was in a locked box. We took it out to look at it and just as I picked it up it exploded.”
In the clip, Lucy’s boyfriend, Sam Littler, can be seen holding his hands above his head as Harrison talks to the officer.
The inquest at Cheshire Coroner’s Court concluded last Wednesday, with the senior coroner ruling that Lucy had been unlawfully killed.
Senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish said: “To shoot her in the chest while she was standing, he should have pointed the gun at his daughter without checking the bullets and without pulling the trigger.” “I find these actions reckless”
Family members burst into tears when the coroner said he found Lucy died of unlawful homicide by gross negligence.
Speaking outside the coroner, Lucy’s mother Jane Coates said: “Today’s result finally gave Luce her voice back after a relentless year of deep shock, grief and fighting.”
She said her daughter was “failed” by Texas gun laws and decisions made by the police department in Prosper.
Lucy’s boyfriend, who was with her on the trip, told the inquest early on Wednesday that he had been arguing with his father about the soon-to-be-inaugurated Trump on the day she was killed.
About a half hour before they planned to go to the airport, she said, Harrison took his daughter to her bedroom, where he hid a Glock semi-automatic pistol in his nightstand.
Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds after entering the room and then heard Harrison screaming for his wife.
“I remember running into the room and seeing Lucy lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom and Kris just screaming, complete bullshit,” Littler said.
Harrison did not attend the two-day hearing at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, but said in a statement that he bought the gun to give his family a “sense of security”. Texas law allows him to possess the gun without a license.
The father claimed that his daughter wanted to see the gun and that he had never discussed owning a gun with her before.
But the inquest heard evidence from others that Lucy knew her father kept a gun in the house and objected.
Mr Harrison, who admitted drinking wine earlier in the day, said in a statement: “As I raised the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I didn’t know what it was. Lucy fell immediately.”
He told police at the scene: “We took it out to look at it and just as I picked it up it exploded.”
Coroner Devonish found that Harrison also did not immediately tell others that he was the one who shot Lucy.
“He knew very well that he shot his own daughter, pointed the gun at chest level and pulled the trigger,” Devonish said. “He did not make sure that information was relayed to 911. Because of a bullet that hit his heart, his prognosis was poor anyway.”
Devonish described Harrison as a “closet drinker” and said he had “no doubt” that he had been drinking throughout the day of his daughter’s murder.
The coroner accepted that Harrison did not know the gun was loaded, but did not accept that Lucy would have asked to see the gun because she was against guns.
“His actions killed his own daughter and it is hoped that he will now be aware of the risk he posed to her life in cold light, where he had no experience with weapons, had no training and had never used a weapon,” Devonish said.
The inquest also heard that police in Texas did not test Harrison for alcohol despite suspecting he had been drinking after smelling alcohol on his breath.
Meanwhile, a grand jury in the US ruled that there was insufficient evidence to indict anyone, including Harrison, in connection with Lucy’s death.
“She was young, energetic and beautiful, she had her whole life ahead of her and this was a very tragic death,” the coroner concluded.
