Travis Ikeguchi's Social Media Filled With Anti-LGBTQ Posts Before Shooting
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, was identified on Monday as the person responsible for the fatal shooting of Laura "Lauri" Carleton, 66.Ikeguchi tore down a rainbow flag outside Carleton's Mag.Pi store in Cedar Glen, near Lake Arrowhead, and "yelled many homophobic slurs" before the shooting on Friday, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus told reporters on Monday.He was killed by sheriff's deputies later on Friday during a confrontation about a mile from the store after opening fire on them, striking multiple patrol vehicles, Dicus said.
The deputies returned fire and shot Ikeguchi, who died at the scene.Ikeguchi, who lived in Cedar Glen, had a history of posting anti-LGBTQ+ content on multiple social media platforms, Mara Rodriguez, the sheriff's department's public information officer, told reporters.His pinned post on X, formerly Twitter, features a burning Pride flag. "What to do with the LGBTQP flag?" Ikeguchi wrote in the June 13 post."There is only one way to the path of salvation and to have eternal life and that is through Jesus Christ.
And yes, the path is narrow," Ikeguchi wrote in his bio on X, where he had fewer than 100 followers.He regularly posted and reposted Bible verses in between anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion content.In another post on X during Pride Month, Ikeguchi wrote that abortion and same-sex marriage "are both immoral and are design to destroy humanity one by one.
