Mum of British woman, 23, shot dead by dad after ‘row about Trump’ hits out at police
The mother of 23-year-old British woman Lucy Harrison, who was shot dead in the US by her father last year, has said she feels 'so let down' that he wasn't charged.
Lucy had been visiting her dad Kris and his family in Texas when she was fatally shot in the chest on 10 January, 2025, with Kris claiming he'd asked if she wanted to see his gun and it discharged while he was holding it.
Kris Harrison claimed he could not remember if his finger was on the trigger at the time, and said he had 'briefly lapsed' back into alcohol consumption on the day he shot his daughter dead as he was emotional about her leaving.
Lucy's boyfriend Sam Littler, who had accompanied her to the US, said father and daughter had a 'big argument' about Donald Trump shortly before she was shot dead.
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A grand jury in the US determined there was insufficient evidence to charge Kris, but a UK-based inquest ruled that Lucy Harrison had been unlawfully killed and her mum Jane Coates has since spoken to Sky News about the lack of a charge.
"I just feel she’s been so let down. I feel anger. My anger isn't shouting and raging, I have a steely determination to call this out and to make sure the truth is heard," she said.
"I am so grateful for our UK coroner for looking at all of the evidence, she had all of the evidence and she came to that unlawful killing conclusion."
Jane spoke about how she found it 'incredibly frustrating because there was physical evidence there', including the results of an autopsy which said her daughter had been shot through the heart with a 'downward trajectory'.
The grieving mum also said the inquest bundle had a diagram which showed 'the positioning of the gun, the gun casing and Lucy’s blood stains on the floor', saying they indicated 'she was not stood next to Kris as he had claimed'.
She said: "I feel anger that police actually took the time to draw this diagram, to see the measurements, to see where Lucy fell in relation to where the shell casing was.
"For me, it was like they had not chosen to follow the physical evidence."
Speaking at the inquest held at Cheshire Coroner’s Court in February this year, senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish had said: "To shoot her through the chest whilst she was standing would have required him to have been pointing the gun at his daughter, without checking for bullets, and pulling the trigger.
“I find these actions to be reckless.”
Devonish said she thought Kris Harrison was a 'teaser' and suggested that is what he was doing when he took out his gun.
The coroner accepted that he did not know the gun was loaded but didn't accept that Lucy would have asked to see it given that she didn't like firearms.
“His actions have killed his own daughter and in the cold light of day it is hoped that he now recognises the risk he posed to her life in circumstances in which he had no experience of guns, had undertaken no training and had never fired a gun," the coroner said.
LADbible Group has contacted Prosper Police Department for comment.
Joe Harker