Fact-checking Lauren Boebert s story about a man getting beaten to death outside her restaurant CNN 3/13/2021 By Daniel Dale, CNN © Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images UNITED STATES - JANUARY 4: Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is seen during a group photo with freshmen members of the House Republican Conference on the House steps of the Capitol on Monday, January 4, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken advocate of gun rights, has for years told a dramatic story about why she began openly carrying a gun. She says it was because a man was beaten to death in 2013 outside Shooters Grill, her restaurant in the municipality of Rifle, Colorado.
Fact-checking Lauren Boebert s story about a man getting beaten to death outside her restaurant
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Lauren Boebert speaks to supporters at a rally outside her restaurant in downtown Rifle in November 2020.
The 37-year-old man who Rifle native and GOP lawmaker Lauren Boebert alleges was beaten to death in front of her downtown restaurant in fact died of a methamphetamine overdose.
The man’s body, meanwhile, was found nowhere near the front of Shooter’s Grill, according to a Rifle Police Department homicide report released exclusively to the Citizen Telegram.
Speaking on the House floor Wednesday during a debate over background checks, the staunch Second-Amendment advocate again used the 2013 incident to justify why she openly carries firearms.