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A British woman was shot dead by her father last year after the pair had argued about President Donald Trump earlier that day. Lucy Harrison, 23, was fatally shot on Jan. 10, 2025 while visiting her father, Kris Harrison, in suburban Dallas at his home in Prosper, Texas. Harrison moved to the U.S. when Lucy was a child.

Prosper police originally investigated her death as a possible case of manslaughter, but a criminal case in Texas was not brought after a grand jury in Collin County opted not to indict him. Her death is being investigated in Cheshire Coroner’s Court in England.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 month ago

"My daughter, who was always mad about my guns, agreed to come see my new gun. I don't know how it accidentally shot her in the head."

That a grand jury in TX didn't move on this is a real indictment of the citizens of that state. But we already knew what sort of people live there and are proud of their politics.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, juries are chosen in part by the defense. You can't treat them as a fair sampling of a population. You have to visit a place, learn its history, get to know people who have spent their lives there, and ask them their genuine opinion. Only then can you truly know whether Texas is a spiritually cruel, intellectually bereft, and socially monstrous place.

Luckily, I can confirm this for you.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He claims it was an accident, and honestly, even if I completely believe his story and take him at his word (I don't) what poor impulse control from that childish, ignorant, weak, stupid, fragile man. No surprise he's a Trump supporter.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Forget the whole Trump angle that might be motive. Why wasn't he at least charged with manslaughter? It seems outrageous that he could claim accidental and get away with it.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

you missed the part where women aren't people in Texas. women are property. he owned his daughter because she was his daughter. and in America, you can do whatever you want with your property.

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago
[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

So this Kris guy is an immigrant huh?

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

When the United Kingdom sends its people, they’re not sending their best...

[-] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, they did send over their religious extremists, slavers, and prisoners, before moving on to other colonies. And the US has never recovered.

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

America** has never recovered

FTFY

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Trump supporters are too emotional to own weapons.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

On the morning of the shooting, at her father’s four-bedroom, $900,000 home, Littler said Lucy had asked her father, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” while they were discussing Trump.

Kris responded that he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him very much.

FAMILY VALUES!

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

They only have a problem with "honor killings" when they're done by brown people.

These people view their children as property, and believe "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" at literal face value.

[-] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Degenerates like him belong on a cross.

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, he doesn't deserve to be a martyr.

[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

trump derangement syndrome strikes again. this mental disorder has infiltrated almost all levels of government including ICE and has killed 2 US citizens. and now another one. when will there be a cure of this disorder.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Way the fuck more than 2. You may not have seen the other ≈500 or so, because those deaths weren't caught on camera, but since ICE was founded in 2003, around 500 people have died in ICE custody. In the last year that has skyrocketed to around or over 60 people dying in a single year (2025). Previously the high point, even under the first Drumpf administration was only around 30-32 people in a year.

In 2025 60 people died in ICE custody. In 2026 they have gunned down, directly murdering in public as opposed to in custody, 2 people before they took them into custody, THAT WE KNOW OF.

Who the fuck knows what they are doing outside of camera range. That's like 99% of US territory, though admittedly ≈80% of the population lives in the scanscapes of the cities and towns.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Yup. That young woman who had a seizure, was (supposedly) taken to hospital, then hasn't been heard from since got to me. All of it is tragic and horrible, but of the recent cases, that one stands out for me, cause you just know she's dead. And they won't even fucking give the family any closure.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And that's just what they are telling us. There is no federal law that enforces local and state law enforcement to divulge the amount of times they fire their weapons, much less how many people die in custody.

ICE may have already killed thousands last year. There are over 1,000 people that no one can account for that were supposed to be in Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers cannot find them. ICE claims not to know their whereabouts.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ICE may have already killed thousands last year.

ICE has quite likely already killed thousands last year, you mean. God it fucking sucks just typing that...

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm hoping for the horrible snowball chance in hell that they misplaced them by deporting them illegally, or just literally losing them en route somewhere.

I realize that's not fucking likely, but I live closest to their Otay Mesa facility, and am wondering why an older veteran than I hasn't taken a killdozer to that particular concentration camp.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

I should pay attention to usernames a bit more, lol.

I can tell you why you haven't, though, cause it's the same reason from our other thread: compassion.

But, I feel pretty safe saying we're in agreement!

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Typical maga loser. So sorry for the woman, standing up to fundamentalist extremists in her own family.

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago

When he gets snapped out of his cult induced mind, he's in for a hell of a time realising that he killed his own daughter in the name of a pedophile rapist.

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[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

In a statement issued by his lawyers, the killer 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

Bull Fucking Shit.

'Man' murdered his daughter is cold blood and expects everyone to feel sorry for him. I hope he rectally gets he deserves in prison.

[-] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Prison rape isn't funny or acceptable when it happens to bad people either. It just perpetuates the idea that anal sex between two men is always a savage act.

Instead, hope he gets savagely assaulted regularly for what he did.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

the leftism leaving peoples body when talking about prison abolition

no, but honestly, violent revenge fantasies don't help anyone, not the victims, and for sure not society. That goes for prison rape especially (as you correctly put it), but same goes for assault or other forms of punishment.

Keep violent people like him away from people they could hurt, sure. But never give up trying to reform them into compassionate members of society. And if punishment is really something needed to put one's mind at ease: The worst thing that could happen to him is he gets better as a human being and has to live with the consequences and guilt of his actions until the day he dies.

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, there are some crimes that deserve to be punished by death.

This is not to rehabilitate or reform, it's to protect the rest of society.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The death penalty probably doesn't work. And talking about who "deserves" the death penalty is once again just lust for vengeance.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’m beginning to wonder if the libraries worth of books written about WWII were an attempt to try to understand a phenomenon, but in all that examination we were still unable to identify the best way to prevent or battle fascism.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

The best way is a lead vaccine.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Murdered his own daughter for a person who fundamentally hates him.

The "I don't know how the gun went off" thing is bullshit. Even if it was accidental, which it wasn't, then she's still dead because of his actions.

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There is no such thing as an "accidental discharge" when guns are involved.

Only "negligent discharges"

[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This, I always get slammed for it in gun communities but I think Glock convincing everyone that pistols don’t need safeties (and later that safeties are a liability) is the single most dangerous action in the gun community in my lifetime. Safeties aren’t there to keep the gun from firing on its own, that’s just any modern gun that doesn’t malfunction, they exist as a final measure against human error.

If you buy a gun without a safety and allow anything to touch the trigger when it’s pointed at something you are not fully comfortable with shooting, you are negligent.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Now replace British by Muslim and trump by Allah (or Black and Obama), and watch right wing media explaining how "these people" are dangerous and not compatible with "our values".

[-] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Muslim woman shot dead after arguing about Donald Allah. Black woman shot dead after arguing about Donald Obama.

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I bet I can guess what side of the issue Dad was on.

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