California Shop Owner Shot and Killed Over Pride Flag. What Happens Next?
<p>Idon’t know how to begin this story except with <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/loving-mother-murdered-by-man-who-hated-her-pride-flag/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">stark</a>, terrible, simple <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/pride-flag-shooting-tributes-laura-ann-carleton/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">facts</a>. A 66-year-old woman is dead, gunned down for hanging a Pride flag outside her boutique clothing shop in Cedar Glen, a rural Southern California town known as queer friendly and welcoming.</p>
<p>According to witnesses, Laura Ann (Lauri) Carleton was working in her shop about 5 PM last Friday when she noticed a 27-year-old man outside “ripping her Pride flag down.” Neighbors say her Pride flags had been vandalized in the past, and she kept replacing them.</p>
<p>When she went out to confront the man Friday evening, he shouted anti-LGBTQ slurs then shot her to death, point blank.</p>
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