Police in Prosper, Texas, investigated the shooting as possible manslaughter, but a Collin County grand jury declined to charge Harrison last June.
Harrison didn’t attend the inquest, but his previous visits to rehab for alcohol addiction were put into the public record, as was his written statement that he had relapsed on the day of the shooting by drinking about 550 ml of white wine.
According to Harrison’s statement, he and his daughter had been watching a TV segment on gun crime when he asked her if she wanted to see the Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun that he kept in a bedroom cabinet.
“As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell,” Harrison said in the statement, claiming he did not remember if his finger was on the Glock’s trigger.
He also stated that he “fully accepted” the consequences of his actions, adding, “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.”
Ana Samuel, Harrison’s representative at Tuesday’s inquest, attempted at the start of the hearing to get coroner Jacqueline Devonish recused, saying the inquest had been conducted “in a manner more akin to a criminal investigation than a fact-finding inquiry.”
Devonish declined to step down from the inquest, noting that Kris Harrison “was the only person in the room at the time Lucy was shot and it was important that he provided his statement of fact,” the Liverpool Echo reported.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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