Police on Monday identified the man whom they say fatally shot a California store owner over a Pride flag she had displayed at her clothing store.
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, was responsible for shooting and killing 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton after “yelling many homophobic slurs” about her clothing store’s Pride flag on Friday, said San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus.
Deputies killed Ikeguchi in a “lethal force encounter” with him after he fled the store, in Lake Arrowhead, California.
Ikeguchi, a Cedar Glen, California, resident, reportedly had had a history of making social media posts that were critical of the LGBTQ community
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