Slain California store owner feared an altercation over Pride flags, her friend says

The 66-year-old California store owner who was shot dead Friday over a dispute about an LGBTQ Pride flag had been worried an altercation would one day take place over the flags she hung outside her store, a friend told CBS News on Monday.

Laura Ann Carleton, who owned the clothing shop Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, was an unapologetic LGBTQ ally, Melissa Lawton told "CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud.

Carleton, who preferred to be called "Lauri," started putting small gay Pride flags in the flower pots outside her store to show her support for the LGBTQ community, Lawton said, but people kept taking them.