No criminal charges over British woman shot in US during holiday

I pay for my parents to visit me instead.

In that case, it was totally worth it.

She was visiting her father, who lives in the Stand your Ground Deregulated Texas Oblast.

That's remotely possible, and I would be inclined to agree if the circumstances around this weren't so fishy to begin with.

E.g. why is the police report heavily redacted? Why has the suspect not been named? This is highly unusual, and suggests there's something more going on. I'd doubt very highly the grand jury were given the full picture.

It's pretty much a done deal that we'll never know more. Someone is making an effort to bury this.

Remember that there are a lot of circumstances that could makenit 'unavoidable' or shift part of the blame to the victim. A misfire and ricochet would still be called a shooting. If she was somewhere down range and a bullet missed a backstop to hit her it would still be a shooting. Maybe a child was shooting the gun in either scenario.

There are plenty of situations where a grand jury would see something as an 'unavoidable accident' or not want to punish whoever had control of the weapon.

Until we know more, there is always the possibility the grand jury doesn't want to follow through based on some misguided emotional criteria instead of holding someone accountable for negligence.

Highly unlikely. Even in bumpus old corners of Texas, the state is absolutely obsessed with doing anything to take away any citizen's gun rights and will do so by nailing them with some kind of felony, and a negligent discharge scenario that results in somebody getting killed in normal circumstances would definitely qualify.

*People* in Texas may love their guns, but the cops in Texas are the same as cops everywhere and if they had their way nobody would have the guns except them.

This points to me that someone involved in law enforcement, someone involved with the government, or someone with very high level connections and/or a lot of money was the one responsible for this and that's why it was swept under the carpet. If it were just a regular Joe there's no way.

And the kid. And shot the dog. And likely deported the neighbor.

I'm not saying it was any actual kid, that's just the only reason I could imagine being possibly justified.

Wealthy or poor kid? If it was a poor kid, they would have arrested the parents.

Then they could at least state it was an accident.

Maybe in this case it's was blatant? Maybe it's because it's a pretty blond woman, which traditionally are rallying points for outrage?

why would they be bothering to cover it up?

Possibly due to international implications? Guessing now.

My thought as well, though this is in texas so why would they be bothering to cover it up? It's not like they'd be convicted *anyways.*

The only situation I could imagine in which this decision could possibly be justified is if a small child got hold of a gun (because Texas) and shot her in play, and they're trying not to ruin the kid's life.

Yeah, all of my real guesses are too bleak for me to want to type them up. This is just awful.

For the sake of her family's closure, I hope we find out. I can't imagine what it's like to have speculation like this about something so horrible.

Could be a former officer.

Even then it must have been really abnormal, normally they just don't release the officer's name and give them a month of paid time off. What the hell....

There would be something leaked from the 5 witnesses or someone briefed on the case like the grand jury. It's something sad like a kid or someone with dementia near death.

Yeah, my first thought was the cops, too. That's usually when the authorities hush up.

And it happened January 10th. It's been months and there were 5 witnesses who haven't spoken to reporters. The most likely outcomes are all really sad.

When they find meme images of a bald VP on their phone.

When is white foreigner season?

Only the brown ones, if they're white it's technically poaching unless they're in-season.

The exact circumstances of how Ms Harrison was shot have not been publicly revealed. A heavily redacted police report previously said a suspect had been identified by officers, along with five witnesses, at her father's property.

Has she been murdered by the police?

Stop going to the usa on holiday. Its not worth it.

It's extremely strange that no details have been released in this case. I kinda doubt it's actual full-bore corruption, that's still fairly rare here, but man for a case involving a foreign citizen it's sure suspicious they're so quiet about it. And even in texas there's so few situations where a fatal shooting doesn't merit charges. It seems a little far fetched for her to have, say, been mugging someone who then shot her in self-defense. Was she shot by some kind of trained combat armadillo? A senile centenarian who passed away during the investigation? A very small child? (actually those last two are feasible, though in both cases the owner of the firearm they got ahold of would probably have been charged, though it's texas so that isn't 100%). Those are the only sort of examples where this might be justified, but lets be honest it was probably the cops.

Just fucking weird. Her poor family.

Why won't they reveal the details? Who are they protecting, besides the shooter? I'm guessing some rich mofo's are involved in this.

Shooting forigners is sport in texas

My best guess is the shooter is either her father or a kid, you know dad goes native and answers the door with a gun now and whoops finger slipped. Or maybe the toddler next door got a hold of daddies pistol and pointed it at the woman in the neighbors lawn.

It seems like if it were the cops they'd just invoke qualified immunity, put the shooter on paid administrative leave and have the states budget pay off the coming lawsuit.

I note there is no information or statement from her father. Which is unusual, because it's his house where she was shot.

Did Elon Musk shoot her while on a K binge?

My guess is that someone completely screwed up some kind of gun safety step and the shooting was unintentional. Although that should result in some kind of negligence charges, I can see Texas giving a moron with a gun a free pass as long as 'they didn't mean too' or something other bullshit.

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