‘Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has a price’: Fashion designer and mother of 9 gunned down by man who made ‘disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag’ she hung outside her boutique

Laura "Lauri" Ann Carleton appears inset against her store, Mag.Pi, where she was shot and killed on Aug. 18, 2023.

Laura “Lauri” Ann Carleton appears inset against her Cedar Glen, Calif. store, Mag.Pi, where she was shot and killed on Aug. 18, 2023. (Instagram; Screengrab via KTLA/Onscene.tv)

A beloved California shopkeeper and clothing designer was shot and killed over the weekend by a man who complained about her business displaying an LGBTQ+ pride flag, authorities say.

Laura “Lauri” Ann Carleton, 66, began her career in the fashion industry when she was a teenager, according to the website for Mag.Pi, her store located in the small, unincorporated community of Cedar Glen, near Lake Arrowhead, some 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

On Friday evening, around 5:00 p.m., she died outside of the store she built amidst a hateful confrontation initiated by her killer, according to a press release issued by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

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