A business owner was fatally shot on Friday after someone allegedly took issue with a Pride flag she had displayed at her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, California.
Deputies responded at 5 p.m. to the shooting at the Mag Pi clothing store, where owner Laura Ann Carleton was pronounced dead at the scene, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. The suspect, who was not identified, fled the scene on foot.
“Through further investigation, detectives learned the suspect made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store before shooting Carleton,” the news release said.
The suspect was armed when confronted by deputies and was killed in “a lethal force encounter,” the sheriff’s department said. An investigation is ongoing.