Lucy Harrison, 23, was shot dead while staying with her father in Texas after an alleged argument about US President Donald Trump.
In January last year, Lucy Harrison was staying with her father, Kris Harrison, at his family home in Prosper, Texas. The 23-year-old fashion buyer from Warrington, Cheshire, in the UK, made the trip with her boyfriend, Sam Littler.
On January 10, 2024, the day the pair were due to fly home, Lucy was shot dead.
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During an inquest which took place in Cheshire Coroner’s Court, Littler has since alleged that shortly before her fatal shooting, Lucy had been ‘having quite a big argument’ with Kris.
And the pair were reportedly arguing about US President Donald Trump, Sky News reports.
Littler alleged the pair often disagreed over certain political differences, such as gun ownership. On the day of Lucy’s death, however, Littler says the pair argued about Trump.Within the argument, he says Lucy questioned Kris about how he would feel if she were sexually assaulted. Kris allegedly replied he wouldn’t be that upset, reportedly referring to having two other daughters living with him.
Littler recalled Lucy and Kris’ argument on the day of her death, prompting Lucy to ‘run upstairs’ as a result of her ‘upset’.
However, Littler then claims Kris took Lucy by her hand to his bedroom on the ground floor of the house.
Around 15 seconds later, Littler said he heard a loud bang and Kris shouting for his wife.
He said: « I remember running into the room and Lucy was lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom, and Kris was just screaming, just sort of nonsense. »
In June last year, a grand jury resolved that no one would be prosecuted over Lucy’s death, declining to indict Kris.Kris is reported as admitting to the court that he ‘briefly lapsed’ in his alcohol addiction on the day of Lucy’s shooting as he was emotional about her leaving, according to the BBC.
His statement claimed he and his daughter had been watching a news report on gun crime and he’d offered to show her his semi-automatic handgun in his room and as he ‘lifted the gun to show her’ he ‘suddenly heard a loud bang’ and ‘did not understand what had happened’.
Kris did not attend the hearing, but his solicitors issued a statement in which he detailed ‘fully accept[ing] the consequences of [his] actions’.
His statement continued: « There isn’t a day I don’t feel the weight of that loss – a weight I will carry for the rest of my life, and I know that nothing I say can ease the heartbreak this tragedy has caused. »While reflecting, he ‘cannot undo what happened,’ he said he ‘can honour Lucy by being the best father [he] can be to her sisters and by carrying her memory forward in everything [they] do’.
« I am deeply sorry for the pain others feel from this tragedy. Lucy’s spirit – her warmth, her humour, her kindness – will live on in all of us who loved her, » he concluded.
Lucy’s mother, Jane Coates, has since spoken out, paying tribute to her daughter.
Reflecting on how much her daughter ‘cared’ and was ‘passionate about things,’ having ‘debates about things that meant a lot to her,’ the mom resolved Lucy as being a ‘real force of life’.
Donald Trump’s administration has retaliated after proceedings were filed by lawyers representing a five-year-old boy detained by ICE.
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was detained in Minneapolis with his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.
Footage of Liam being taken by ICE while wearing a Spiderman backpack and blue hat sparked outrage on social media and around the world.
Now, Liam’s family have claimed that the Department of Homeland Security is hitting them with ‘retaliatory’ obstacles, and is trying to push forward deportation proceedings for Liam and his father.
After their detention in Minnesota on January 20, the pair were taken to an ICE facility in Texas, where they were kept with other children and families.
Danielle Molliver from Nwojocha & Operana Law Offices is representing the family, and said that a motion filed by the DHS on Wednesday aims to expedite their deportation.Molliver said that this sort of reaction is ‘not very common’, and said she believes that the DHS motion is ‘retaliatory’.
« It’s really frustrating as an attorney, because they keep throwing new obstacles in our way, » she said. « There’s absolutely no reason that this should be expedited. It’s not very common. »
Adrian Conejo Arias has also spoken out since his detention, telling MPR News in an interview translated from Spanish: « The government is moving many pieces; it’s doing everything possible to do us harm, so that they’ll probably deport us. We live with that fear too. »
Molliver explained that the father and son may not be deported to Ecuador, where they are from, and that that may be able to apply for asylum in a third country.
The case has drawn national attention after footage of Liam being detained by ICE officers went viral on social media.Liam has now returned home to Minnesota this week, where Minnesota US Rep. Ilhan Omar and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas welcomed him.
Castro said in a previous interview with PBS News: “Liam is not doing well. He has been sleeping a lot. He hasn’t been eating well, and he’s been very depressed. He misses his mom, he misses his classmates, and he wants to go home. »
The Texas representative went on to say that conditions at the Dilley detention center in Texas were poor, with people held there saying they found ‘worms occasionally in their food’.
The US federal government has carried out a sustained ICE operation in Minnesota, where communities across the state have organized in opposition to ICE.
Since the operation, ICE have shot dead two Minnesotans, mom-of-three Renee Nicole Good, and ICU nurse Alex Pretti, both 37. Eight people in total are said to have been killed in dealings with ICE since the start of the year, reports The Guardian.
Pretti was pinned to the ground by multiple officers as he attempted to help another protester, before officer fired 10 rounds at him in five seconds, at point blank range.
President Donald Trump kept little to the imagination when describing the first lady’s underwear at his latest political rally.
The 79-year-old was speaking to voters at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Friday (December 19), ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. When describing his government’s policies and inflation, the event took an unusual turn.
Trump veered off topic and began recounting his version of the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago residence – yes, and he somehow ended up talking about his wife’s underwear.
Reflecting on the high-profile search of the Palm Beach, Florida, resort, Trump told the crowd: « They went into my wife’s closet … they looked at her drawers. »
From there, the president launched into an oddly specific description of Melania’s habits, insisting she is extremely organized.
« Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded perfect, wrapped. They’re, like, so perfect. »
Trump, clearly a fan of the way his 55-year-old wife cares for her briefs, then added: « I think that she steams them. »
Personally, I can’t imagine that a billionaire’s wife folds away their own laundry – but steaming your knickers is wild regardless, and even crazier if a housekeeper is charged with doing so!
Anyway, the raid in question took place in August 2022 as part of a criminal investigation linked to presidential records.
Earlier that year, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) disclosed that 15 boxes of documents had been taken from the White House and kept at Mar-a-Lago, even though regulations require all such records to be transferred at the conclusion of a presidency.
After the search, the warrant and property receipt were made public. The documents revealed that investigators were seeking evidence related to potential obstruction of justice, destruction or concealment of records, or violations of the Espionage Act.During the operation, agents recovered 11 sets of classified materials, including documents marked ‘top secret’, which are typically only viewed in secure government locations.
In June 2023, Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury over the alleged mishandling of classified documents, becoming at the time the first former US president to face federal criminal charges. He was arrested and arraigned in a Florida federal court, where he pleaded not guilty.
Although additional charges were later added, the case was ultimately dismissed in July 2024.
But anyway, what we learnt on Friday is that First Lady Melania Trump steams her underwear before folding it neatly away in her drawers!
US President Donald Trump declared Alex Pretti ‘certainly shouldn’t have been carrying a gun’, but the National Rifle Association has since weighed in to clarify the ‘right to bear arms’.
On January 24, a federal immigration agent fatally shot Alex Pretti in the streets of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security said the federal agent shot the 37-year-old intensive care nurse in an act of self-defense, claiming Pretti had brandished a handgun at the time. Footage around the time of the incident shows Pretti holding not a gun, but a mobile phone, and eyewitness accounts also contradict officials’ claims he was brandishing such a weapon.
President of the United States Donald Trump also spoke out in an interview with Fox News, stating he doesn’t ‘like’ that Pretti ‘was carrying a gun’ and that there was something ‘unusual’ about Pretti ‘ha[ving] a gun that was fully loaded’ alongside ‘two magazines’.
While the investigation into the incident continues, Trump’s voicing that ‘[Pretti] certainly shouldn’t have been carrying a gun’ has sparked backlash, given the nurse was a licensed concealed-weapons holder.
And while not making direct reference to anyone, the National Rifle Association took to X on January 28 to share a statement.
The statement reads: « The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be. »
This follows gun rights lobbying group Gun Owners of America also having spoken out.
A spokesperson for the organization, named Luis Valdes, told Reuters: « You absolutely can walk around with a gun, and you absolutely can peacefully protest while armed.
« It’s an American historical tradition that dates all the way back to the Boston Tea Party. »
This was echoed by Minneapolis police chief who told Face the Nation: « You have a Second Amendment right in the United States to possess a firearm. And there are some restrictions around that in Minnesota.
« And everything that we see, that we’re aware of, shows that he did not violate any of those restrictions. He is not a convicted felon and he is someone that did have a permit for the handgun to carry it. »
However, other officials have also defended the agent responsible for shooting Pretti, and have supported Trump’s statement that Pretti shouldn’t have been carrying a gun, such as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel.
During a press conference just hours after Pretti’s killing, Noem said: « I don’t know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. »
Patel told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures: « As Kristi said, you cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple. »
In response to Pretti’s fatal shooting, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told a reporter, as quoted by Reuters: « Any gun owner knows that when you are carrying a weapon, when you are bearing arms, and you are confronted by law enforcement, you are raising the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against you, and that’s unfortunately what took place on Saturday. »
