New body camera footage this week showed the moment a police officer confronted the alcoholic father of a British woman who was shot dead in Texas after the two argued over President Donald Trump.
Lucy Harrison, 23, was visiting her family in Texas in January 2025 when her father, Kris Harrison, 51, shot her during a disagreement, The Daily Beast reported.
In the video, police confront Kris Harrison about the fight. He told law enforcement the two were "talking about guns" when the firearm apparently went off.
“She said, ‘you got a gun?’ I said, yes, I got it out and it just went off and she stood there like, as I pulled it out. It went off,” he said during the conversation, which was captured on the body camera footage.
“I put it on the bed straight away. It was in the bedside cabinet. In a locked box, and we took it out to look, and just as I picked it up, it went off,” Kris said.
Officers appeared to be speaking with Kris while Lucy's boyfriend, Sam Littler, was seen pacing in the room, putting his hands on his head.
"Prosecutors in Collin County failed to secure an indictment against Kris after a grand jury heard that his gun accidentally fired when he 'lifted it to show her,'" The Daily Beast reported.
Although he wasn't prosecuted in the US, the UK has held an inquest — a special court hearing — and has continued to investigate.. Last month the court ruled that Lucy died unlawfully.
In his testimony with the Cheshire Coroner’s Court earlier this month, Littler described what happened in the moments before the shooting.
Lucy and her father were apparently discussing Trump when she asked him, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”
"He dismissed her question and said he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him too much," The Daily Beast reported. "Littler said that Lucy grew 'quite upset' with her father’s answer and went upstairs."
The couple had planned to leave for the airport and return to the UK when Littler said Kris took Lucy by the hand up to his bedroom.
"Littler said he then heard a loud bang and heard Kris scream for his wife," The Daily Beast reported.
Kris sent a written statement to the Cheshire Coroner’s Court and said he had relapsed the day of the shooting and had drunk nearly a full bottle of white wine.
“As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell,” Kris said.
“I fully accept the consequences of my actions, and 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, and I know that nothing I say can ease the heartbreak this tragedy has caused,” he said in the statement.
