• No criminal charge brought against the father despite the death investigation
• Testimony reveals he had been drinking alcohol moments before the incident inside the home

A man shot his daughter dead while she was visiting his home in Texas, following an argument earlier that same day about President Donald Trump, according to findings heard in a judicial inquiry.

Lucy Harrison, 23, from Cheshire in the UK, died after being shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in the town of Prosper near Dallas.

Police treated the case as suspected manslaughter, but a grand jury in Collin County decided not to bring criminal charges against her father, Kris Harrison.

During inquest hearings opened at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, her boyfriend Sam Littler described a “heated dispute” between Lucy and her father over Trump, who was preparing to begin his second presidential term.

He said the couple had travelled together to the United States for a holiday, noting that Lucy often became upset when her father spoke about owning a firearm.

The court also heard that Kris Harrison, who moved to the US when his daughter was a child, had previously undergone treatment for alcohol addiction.

In a written statement to the court, he admitted relapsing on the day of the incident and drinking heavily.

Littler said that morning, during the argument about Trump, Lucy asked her father how he would feel if she were the victim of assault. He replied that he had two other daughters living with him and it would not affect him greatly, prompting her to run upstairs in visible distress.

He added that about half an hour before they were due to leave for the airport, Lucy was in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom.

Roughly 15 seconds later, a gunshot rang out, followed by the father shouting for his wife.

When Littler entered the room, he found Lucy lying near the bathroom entrance while her father was screaming incoherently.

In his statement, Kris Harrison said they had been watching a news report about gun crime when he told her he owned a Glock 9mm pistol kept in a bedside cabinet, which he had bought years earlier to feel his family was protected.

He said that as he lifted the weapon to show her, it suddenly discharged and she collapsed immediately, adding that he could not recall whether his finger had been on the trigger.

He also said he had been emotionally affected by her imminent departure, leading to a “brief relapse” into drinking on the day she died.

A police officer’s testimony noted the smell of alcohol on his breath upon arrival at the house.

During the hearing, the father’s legal team requested that the coroner step aside over alleged bias, arguing the proceedings resembled a criminal investigation rather than a fact-finding inquiry, but the coroner rejected the request.

Representatives for Lucy’s mother stressed that the father was the only person in the room at the moment the gun was fired.