A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.

Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas.

Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old’s death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.

An inquest into Lucy Harrison’s death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the “big argument” about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.

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    9 hours ago

    It really depends on the part. Austin and San Antonio are very art-focused, moderate/liberal cities in some of the most beautiful areas of the country, but everywhere in America has rural populations of utterly deranged hog-people.

    A place like Dallas you aren’t as likely to get shot, but you are more likely to face weird, old-money racism and discrimination.

    The problem with texas is it has some of the most vast areas of rural population, as the entire state is just this flat sprawl of land with isolated communities full of poor drug addicts who just stare at the flatness of it all before going insane.

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      8 hours ago

      There’s also Houston, the largest city in the state. Houston is alright, mostly.

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      8 hours ago

      San Antonio is a shit-hole full of rich white people who fucking LOVE jebus

      Edit: Oh and the “river” is a fucking concrete drainage ditch. Literally pathetic.