Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren shot by police after ‘pointing handgun at cops’ in chaotic scenes
THE wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner has been shot by police and arrested after pointing a handgun at armed cops.
Jillian Lauren is accused of aiming the weapon at officers who swiftly opened fire and downed the wife in the middle of the street, according to a police press release.
Cops were quickly alerted to news of a hit-and-run on Tuesday involving three suspects who fled from the scene of a freeway crash, according to an LAPD press release.
As officers searched for the suspects, they found Jillian, 51, stood outside her home holding a handgun.
Police said they yelled at her to drop the gun “numerous times” – but she refused.
One officer is then said to have shot Jillian in the shoulder, reports TMZ.
After being hit, the budding author is said to have gone back inside her home before coming out with her hands up moments later.
She was joined by the family‘s female babysitter.
Jillian was then booked in connection with attempted murder with her and the babysitter being taken into police custody.
She is said to have told cops that she left her home with the gun in hand after hearing about the three men on the run in the neighbourhood, according to CBS News.
No officers were injured in the altercation.
Footage shows Jillian laid out on the floor with her arms sprawled out as an officer places her in handcuffs.
A barefooted Jillian is then led away into a police car.
Jillian was later taken to a local hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics to be treated for the non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Both women have since been released, KTLA reports.
Police searched the home and recovered a 9-millimeter handgun.
The driver of the car that crashed in the initial incident was also detained by California Highway Patrol officers, cited and released.
Two remaining suspects who fled the multi-car smash are still yet to be found.
A witness who saw the crash unfold and tried to chase the main suspect told KTLA he was bleeding from his mouth as he fled the freeway in the afternoon.
Alana Altmeyer and her brother Guy Binn said: “I saw a gentleman walking on the shoulder. So my brother and I went over and assumed that he was leaving the scene of an accident
“He was bleeding from his head, his mouth and his knees.”
The suspect continued to run down a steep bank and through the streets near the intersection of Waldo Place and Eagle Vista in the Eagle Rock neighborhood.
Police then got a call and started a chase of their own after being tipped off that the man had stripped down to his underwear.
Officers set up a perimeter in the neighborhood only to discover he had jumped into a swimming pool in a bizarre attempt to hide.
During this time a team of cops ran into Jillian.