Bodycam footage released shows the moment after a Texas father shot & killed his daughter
Bodycam footage released shows the moment after a Texas father shot & killed his daughter, heartbroken boyfriend seen with his hands on his head.
Lucy Harrison was visiting from the UK when she was shot by her father. Her father, Kris Harrison, moved to the US when she was a child.
Kris was heard telling officers that the gun accidentally went off.
“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,” he claimed.
He admitted in court that he and his daughter previously had a “big argument” about Trump, and they had frequent fights over his conservative beliefs.
On the day of the incident, Harrison said they were arguing about guns.
Harrison says he got his gun to show her and “suddenly heard a loud bang… Lucy immediately fell.”
“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,” said senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish.
“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.”
Harrison was allegedly an alcoholic and reportedly drank a 17-ounce carton of white wine the day he shot his daughter.
He was able to escape manslaughter charges, and the death was ruled an accident.