Texas Father Shoots And Kills British Daughter Over Argument Regarding Trump; Father To Face No Charges

By Alvin H. Green IV

Courtesy of Getty Images

A father in Texas fatally shot his daughter after they had an argument regarding the Trump Administration. Texas statutes have allowed him to get off scott free, and hardly anyone in America has reported on it. Which begs the question: Why? 

Lucy Harrison, a 23 year-old fashion lover from the United Kingdom, had been in a heated argument with her father Kris  about the Trump Administration, the Epstein Files, and the government’s handling of it moments before she was shot. According to Black Enterprise, the argument escalated when Lucy asked “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” Her father said that he would not care, as he had other daughters. 

Witness testimony from the mother says that their fight continued for some time after that, until her husband pulled Lucy by the arm into the basement. Around fifteen seconds after the two entered the basement, a gunshot was heard, and Lucy was dead.

According to bodycam footage released by CBS Texas shortly after the shooting, the father claimed his daughter asked about the gun he was packing for his trip and when he grabbed it “...it just went off … As I pulled it out, it went off.” He reportedly could not recall if his finger was on the trigger, but also said his recent “alcohol relapse” could have contributed to the gun firing. Lucy reportedly hated the fact her father was a gun owner, as he was prone to abusing alcohol and had two children in the house. It was one of the things they most often argued about.

“Any responsible officer would have arrested him the second he said ‘alcohol relapse’,” said first-year criminal justice major Brandon Brown. “The man was drinking, pulled his daughter into the basement, and shot her. At best this was a drunken accident. At worst, it was premeditated.”

A grand jury in Collin County ultimately decided to not indict the father over the killing, citing insufficient evidence for a manslaughter charge. It should be noted that Texas also has multiple principles, such as ‘Stand Your Ground’ and the Castle Doctrine, that could have potentially gotten the father off if he could prove his daughter posed a threat. The real threat here, however, is how normal incidents like this have become.

Over the last decade or so America has become disturbingly desensitized to cruelty, both casual and absurd. ICE agents kidnap people in broad daylight, and although there are protests, there are no trials. The wealthiest among us are just beginning to be exposed as child-murdering rapists, and the only person in prison is Ghislaine Maxwell. A man shoots his own daughter in the chest and doesn’t even cry. I’m serious. Watch the bodycam footage. The man just shot his own daughter in the chest and his tone is calm, cool, and collected.

“It’s called The Moral Repetition Effect,” said second-year psychology major Aubrey White. “The more horrible stuff we see on the news and on our phones, the less we start to actually care. It’s like when you use a crayon too much and eventually it just becomes a nub. We’ve had our minds nub’ed to the point where we can just look at this and go ‘Oh, yeah, this is normal’ when it really shouldn’t be.”

Again, there has been no protest, no outrage, nobody chanting for justice from the Left or the Right. But I suppose that's just the way Americans have been conditioned. We see school shootings and politically-motivated violence everyday. If busloads of children being killed a month doesn’t stir Americans to demand gun reform, no one could be reasonably expected to make Kris Harrison face justice for killing his own daughter.

One man is pushing back on the other side of the pond. 

A coroner in the United Kingdom, according to the IB Times, has ruled the killing an unlawful manslaughter early this February. He has called out the father for being grossly negligent around both his guns and his children. Although this will not lead to a criminal conviction for Mr. Harrison, perhaps it will convince the people in power to take action and force accountability upon him.