Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

The bio of the victim from her store's website:

Lauri Carleton's career in fashion began early in her teens, working in the family business at Fred Segal Feet in Los Angeles while attending Art Center School of Design. From there she ran “the” top fashion shoe floor in the US at Joseph Magnin Century City. Eventually she joined Kenneth Cole almost from its inception and remained there for over fifteen years as an executive, building highly successful businesses, working with factories and design teams in Italy and Spain, and traveling 200 plus days a year.

With a penchant for longevity, she has been married to the same man for 28 years and is the mother of a blended family of nine children, the youngest being identical twin girls. She and her husband have traveled the greater part of the US, Europe and South America. From these travels they have nourished a passion for architecture, design, fine art, food, fashion, and have consequently learned to drink in and appreciate the beauty, style and brilliance of life. Their home of thirty years in Studio City is a reflection of this passion, as well as their getaway- a restored 1920's Fisherman's Cabin in Lake Arrowhead. Coveting the simpler lifestyle with family, friends and animals at the lake is enhanced greatly by their 1946 all mahogany Chris-Craft; the ultimate in cultivating a well appreciated and honed lifestyle.

Mag.Pi for Lauri is all about tackling everyday life with grace and ease and continuing to dream…

What a waste. A tragedy for that whole family for literally nothing. No reason at all other than small minded assholes.

Stochastic terrorism.

I blame the gop for radicalizing the shooter.

Honesty I’m so done with this shit. Next confederate flag I see I’m ripping it down. Yes I know it’s illegal but I just don’t give a fuck anymore. If they do it to our flags we should be able to do it back to their traitors symbol of stupidity.

Alright I’m done venting now. I probably won’t do shit since I’m crippled and I use a cane to walk around 🤣

I find it important to make clear it was a hate crime, but Lauri Carleton was NOT killed "over a rainbow flag outside her clothing store".

No one gets killed because of a rainbow flag. You get killed because an asshole who wants to rather die than adapt to the world changing wants to spread fear with his last action and needs desperately to find a "reason". Let's not pretend he had a reason any other than being a coward.

My heart goes out to her family, friends and the community impacted.

The reality is that terrorists like this guy are armed and carrying all the time, but the second amendment is for all Americans including liberals, lefties, moderates and everyone in between.

Im not advocating for violence, in fact having a concealed carry permit nearly always means the exact opposite. Someone being aggressive? You walk away and let them win. Someone tailgating you? Let them pass.

Carrying is about situations like this, between a shop owner with a rainbow flag and someone out looking for an excuse to murder someone over rage bait.

It's odd, I don't think I've ever heard of a lefty or a gay person outright killing someone over a Dixie or Trump flag. I keep reading about far-righties killing people over the scary rainbow flag though

Maybe it wasn't a particularly good idea to make firearms so easily available to everyone and especially to (neo)Nazis?

How much of a pussy do you have to be to go shoot somebody over a rainbow flag. What a fucking fairy. People are so sensitive these days and don't know how to act. We can blame the internet all we want, but at the end of the day, people need to learn to have some social skills. How to talk disagreements out and let people have an opinion, even if it may be wrong or stupid in their eyes. It absolutely infuriates me that people gotta die over stupid shit.

Just another example of far-right extremist violence.

Ever notice how there's no such thing as a liberal hate crime?

"We are all domestic terrorists".

How much more do we have to put up with before we do something about this? Sadly I'm guessing it's a lot more.

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If I am ever killed over my rainbow stuff, I'm haunting the son of a bitch who killed me as a rainbow.

They want you dead. It's time to return this sentiment.

Everyone talking about the victim, etc what happened to the murderer? Is they in prisión now?

Is this the start of them hunting down libs? Party of law and order people.

Funny how these murder-babies are never from the north east, where the money is at.

Tragic and unacceptable.

Kill-billies kill. It's all they know, it's all they can do.

I'm hoping they never release the killers identity to the public. Spreading around that hateful persons likeness and beliefs all over media and articles only empowers others to do the same thing. Leave them as a nameless pictureless murderer with no agenda or beliefs, just some bigoted murderer.

https://www.pinkpistols.org/

Damn my hometown...

This shit is why I just stay at home.

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The suspect was found nearby by arriving deputies, who shot and killed him, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said.

The suspect is also dead. I see this as an absolute win

It's considered a pedophile flag now. The move to have kids involved was a poor choice. Expect more violence bc you don't do shit like that unless you want a reaction.

As someone shared with me:

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