UK Inquest Rules British Woman's Texas Death Unlawful Killing

A British woman was shot and killed by her father in his Texas home on January 10, 2025, following an argument over U.S. politics, an inquest in England has ruled her death an unlawful killing due to his reckless handling of a handgun.

Lucy Harrison, 23, from Warrington in Cheshire, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest at her father Kris Harrison's residence in Prosper, a suburb near Dallas. She had been visiting with her boyfriend, Sam Littler, for a post-Christmas holiday and to see family before their planned flight back to England that afternoon. Harrison, an executive at a fiber optics company who moved to Texas when Lucy was a child, owned the Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun for home defense. He had no formal training in its use and kept it in a locked case in a downstairs bedroom.

According to testimony at the Cheshire Coroners Court inquest, which concluded on Wednesday, the incident followed a heated morning dispute between Lucy and her father over President Donald Trump. Littler told the court that Lucy, who opposed Trump, asked her father how he would feel if she had been the victim in assault allegations against the president. Harrison reportedly replied...