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’.
