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Dramatic body camera footage captured the tense moments after a drunk Texas father shot and killed his daughter following an argument over President Trump.
Wine-drunk dad Kris Harrison, who escaped manslaughter charges after fatally shooting his 23-year-old daughter Lucy Harrison last year, told police that he whipped out the Glock 9mm pistol after she asked him if he had a gun.
“She said, ‘do you have a gun?’ And I said ‘yes.’ I got it out and it just went off as she stood there, like as I pulled it out it went off,” the father explained in the video, which was released by the Cheshire Coroner’s Court.
Lucy Harrison was visiting from the UK when she was shot in the chest on Jan. 10, 2025 by her father at his home in Prosper, located about 35 miles north of Dallas.
Kris Harrison, who moved to the US when his daughter was a child, later admitted that he was an alcoholic who had relapsed and threw back three glasses of wine on the day of the shooting, the BBC reported.
He told police in the bodycam footage that he pulled out the gun — which he said he kept in a locked box in a bedside cabinet — just as Lucy was about to go to the airport to go back to the UK.
“We took it out to look, and just as I picked it up, it went off,” he said, noting it “must have been” loaded.
Lucy Harrison’s devastated boyfriend, Sam Littler, can be seen in the clip holding his hands on his head as Harrison speaks with police.
Littler later told a court the dad and daughter had a “big argument” about President Trump, who was about to be inaugurated for his second term at the time. The two frequently fought about her father’s conservative politics, he said.
Kris Harrison was initially being investigated by cops for possible manslaughter charges, but he got off scot-free after a Texas County grand jury chose not to indict him.
The father and his daughter argued about guns the day of the shooting, Harrison claimed in a statement read in court on his behalf last week, after he chose not to attend the two-day hearing.
“As I lifted the gun to show her, I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell,” Harrison said at Cheshire Coroner’s Court.
But the fact that Lucy was shot through the chest from across the bedroom showed that the testimony from Harrison, described as a “functioning alcoholic,” was false, senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish said last week.
“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,” she said.
“I accept he was a teaser, and on the balance of probabilities, this is what he was doing. I accept he did not realize the gun was loaded,” the senior coroner added.
Harrison suffered an alcoholic seizure in 2023, leaving him in an induced coma.
He had gulped down a 17-ounce carton of white wine the day he killed Lucy, but did not believe he was drunk when he shot his daughter shortly before 3 p.m. that day.
Lucy’s death was ruled accidental by a Texas grand jury last June — a decision her mom, Jane Coates, called “baffling” and “beyond comprehension.”
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