LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Jillian Lauren, author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot and injured by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after pointing a gun at officers from her front yard, authorities said Wednesday.
The 51-year-old Lauren, identified by police as Jillian Shriner and listed as Jillian Lauren Shriner in jail records, had injuries that were not life-threatening after the shooting in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock on Thursday, the LAPD said in a statement.
Her representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment and there is no indication Scott Shriner was involved in the incident. Weezer is scheduled to play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday.
Police said they were assisting California Highway Patrol officers in their search for three suspects from a misdemeanor hit-and-run. Lauren was not among the suspects. But while pursuing one of them who had reportedly been running through a backyard, police came upon Lauren in the front yard of her neighboring residence, holding a handgun.
They ordered her several times to drop the gun, but she refused, and pointed it at them, police allege. They did not say whether she fired the gun, but said she was hit by police gunfire and fled into her home.
Nexstar’s KTLA caught aerial footage of Shriner and another woman, reportedly her child’s babysitter, coming out of the residence with their hands up. The two women were ordered to walk down the driveway and told to lie on the street while police took them both into custody.
Medical personnel with the LA Fire Department who were on standby put the 51-year-old into an ambulance and took her to the hospital where she was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said.
A 9-millimeter handgun was recovered from Shriner’s home, the police statement said.
She was later booked and was being held on $1 million bail, LA County jail records showed.
The incident began when the California Highway Patrol responded to reports of a three-car crash, in which three men in one of the involved vehicles ran from the freeway, prompting CHP to call LA police for backup.
One of the suspects, who was chased off the freeway by a brother and sister who witnessed the crash, got into the Eagle Rock neighborhood, stripped down to his boxers, jumped into a resident’s pool and watered their garden in an attempt to blend in.
While police were searching backyards for that suspect, they encountered Lauren.
The other two men who allegedly fled the scene of the crash are still at large.
Lauren has not made a court appearance, and it was not immediately clear whether she has hired a lawyer. There were no immediate responses to an email to her manager and a message left on her author website. There was also no response to an email seeking comment from a representative for Weezer.
Lauren is the author of two memoirs, 2010’s “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem” and 2015’s “Everything You Ever Wanted.”
Weezer is a Los Angeles band beloved for their 1994 record unofficially known as the “Blue Album,” featuring songs including “Say It Ain’t So” and “Buddy Holly.” Shriner joined the band in the early 2000s.
Lauren and Shriner married in 2005. They have two children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.