The wife of a 90s rock star was shot by police in Los Angeles after she allegedly pointed her gun at a hit-and-run suspect invading her neighborhood.
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren, 51, was charged with attempted murder on Tuesday afternoon for pointing her gun at a man outside her LA home.
The man had previously been involved in a three-car crash on the 134 Freeway around 3pm but fled the scene alongside two other male suspects.
While hiding from officers who set up a perimeter in the area, the man stripped down to his boxer shorts before jumping in a resident’s swimming pool and watering some plants in a bizarre attempt to blend into the neighborhood.
Novelist Lauren then exited her home with a gun pointed at the suspect who had invaded her property, though it is unclear whether she actually fired the weapon.
Police said they gave her multiple commands to drop the weapon, before an officer fired at her, hitting her in the shoulder.
Lauren ran back inside her house before re-emerging a short time later with her babysitter by her side. They were both seen with their hands raised, as officers ordered them down the driveway, where they were arrested without incident.
At that point, Lauren allegedly told officers she was simply trying to defend her home from the suspect running through the neighborhood, according to CBS News. The man was also taken into custody.
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren was shot by police officers in Los Angeles Tuesday after authorities say she pointed a gun at a hit-and-run suspect, and refused to obey orders from officers on the scene
A suspect was seen being taken into custody Wednesday evening
Lauren (pictured with husband Scott in 2018) was subsequently booked in connection with attempted murder
She was absentee booked on suspicion of attempted murder while being taken to a nearby medical facility by paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Medical professionals examined her for what was described as ‘a non-life-threatening gunshot wound’ following the violent series of events.
It is unclear whether Shriner was involved in the shocking incident ahead of his appearance at Coachella.
Meanwhile, the driver of the car that crashed in the hit-and-run was detained by California Highway Patrol officers, cited and released.
Police said that they took a 9-millimeter handgun from Lauren’s home upon examining the abode in the wake of the saga that played out in Southern California.
A woman involved in the three-vehicle crash the man and two other male suspects fled from also suffered moderate injuries and was taken to the hospital, police said.
Officers added that Lauren had nothing to do with the initial hit-and-run. Lauren and her babysitter have since been released from police custody, as LAPD’s Force Investigation Division probes the police-involved shooting, according to KTLA.
Meanwhile, the remaining two suspects who fled the multi-car crash remain at large.
Dailymail.com has reached out to the LAPD for additional comment.
Lauren exited her house with her arms raised as she surrendered to authorities
She was arrested alongside her babysitter, but the two have since been released
The entire saga began with a multi-vehicle crash on the freeway Tuesday afternoon
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Two witnesses explained to KTLA that they saw the man who invaded Lauren’s neighborhood fleeing the scene. Brother and sister Alana Altmeyer and Guy Binn said the man was walking on the shoulder away from the three-way crash.
When they then gave chase, the man tried to run to the opposite side of the freeway and fell, according to Altmeyer. ‘He was bleeding from his head, his mouth and his knees,’ she said.
Still, the suspect was somehow able to jump over the side of the freeway and ran down an embankment as Binn said he tried to keep up.
‘I chased him down the side of the freeway, over a couple of fences,’ he said.
‘He had a bag and a sweater. I got his bag. I got his sweater, and me being so old, I couldn’t keep up with the guy. I chased him to the park, and I lost him.’
LA police officers tracked the man down to the intersection of Waldo Place and Eagle Vista in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, after which he started his bizarre blending-in manoeuvre that caused Lauren to point her gun at him when he came onto her property.
Lauren and 90s rock star Scott married in 2005 and they have two adopted children together.
Beyond her marriage to Scott, Lauren has found fame on her own after penning a series of memoirs and true crime books.
In 2010, she published a memoir ‘Some Girls: My Life in a Harem’ detailing the 18 months she was part of the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei alongside 24 other women in the 1990s.
She said she was showered with jewelry, designer clothes and bags stuffed with cash. At the time, her memoir sparked huge media attention for its unfiltered glimpse at Brunei’s vast wealth and exploitation.
In her second book, ‘Everything You Ever Wanted’ published in 2015, Lauren detailed her experience adopting a child from Ethiopia, and struggling with motherhood and trauma.
US band Weezer with guitarist Brian Bell, frontman Rivers Cuomo, and bassist Scott Shriner performs on stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio near Palm Spring, California, USA, 20 April 2019
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Lauren has also previously worked as a crime reporter, and was involved in investigating the serial killer Samuel Little, one of the most prolific murderers in US history.
In ‘Behold the Monster’, investigative journalist Lauren writes of Little’s confessions to her, including the chilling admission that ‘it felt like being in love’ after being asked why he had murdered 93 women.
After getting away with murder for far too long, Little had at last been convicted and given four life sentences without possibility of parole, later raised to six.
From her first visit in 2018, Lauren would visit him every weekend.
Over two years, as she gently flattered him, plied him with sweets and fizzy drinks and put him at his ease, he would describe 86 of the murders he had committed, often doing drawings of the women he had killed.
He started by giving her a vivid description of his first strangling of a woman in Miami in 1969. She wrote: ‘He imagined himself as some kind of angel of mercy, divinely commissioned to euthanise.’
His trademark, across many US states, had been breaking the necks of his victims (mainly prostitutes) during the sexual intercourse which they had voluntarily embarked on in his car.
‘They died in sexual pleasure, not hate, you understand,’ he explained to Lauren. ‘I’m not like these, what do you call it? Homicidal sexual maniacs.’
‘If there was one thing he had mastered,’ Lauren writes, ‘it was becoming the black man no one saw, finding the black woman no one would miss.’
Lauren has also previously worked as a crime reporter, and was involved in investigating the serial killer Samuel Little, one of the most prolific murderers in US history. In ‘Behold the Monster’, investigative journalist Lauren writes of Little’s confessions to her (Lauren is pictured above with Little)
The bond of friendship Little felt he’d built up with Lauren was so strong, he named her his next of kin. He died in 2020 and she keeps his ashes in her garage
Lauren is pictured above with several copies of her book about Little titled ‘Behold the Monster’
Lauren often shares loved-up snaps with Shriner on her Instagram account
Lauren appeared at numerous spoken word and storytelling events across the US as well as at a TEDx Talk about adoption and identity at Chapman University in 2014. Lauren is pictured above speaking with the South Carolina Police Accreditation Coalition about a crime case
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The America of the 1970s, 80s and 90s was one where (as Leila Mae McClain, one of the few women who managed to escape from his murderous clutches, said years later in court): ‘They don’t care nothing about a black prostitute in Pascagoula, Mississippi. No, Ma’am.’
When Leila, half-naked, bruised and utterly distraught, arrived at the nearest hospital hardly able to speak after the near-strangulation, no one asked her how it had happened and she didn’t think it worth telling them.
‘And how did it feel to kill women?’ Lauren asked Little. ‘Oooeee, it felt like Heaven,’ he replied. ‘It felt like being in bed with Marilyn Monroe. It felt like being in love.’
The bond of friendship Little felt he’d built up with Lauren was so strong, he named her his next of kin. He died in 2020 and she keeps his ashes in her garage.
Her book about Little was also turned into a true crime documentary series for Starz called Confronting a Serial Killer.
Lauren appeared at numerous spoken word and storytelling events across the US as well as at a TEDx Talk about adoption and identity at Chapman University in 2014.
The 51-year-old shared a few weeks ago that she has cancer and was undergoing treatment.
‘Yes, I have a little bit of the C word y’all. I know a lot of us do,’ she said in a post on Instagram, sharing a photo of herself smiling and giving a thumbs up while lying in a bed at Glendale Adventist Hospital.
The 51-year-old shared a few weeks ago that she has cancer and was undergoing treatment
Scott Shriner and Jillian Lauren attend the 2015 Moth Ball at Capitale on May 12, 2015 in New York City
Weezer – formed in 1992 – features singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, rhythm guitarist Brian Bell, and bass/keyboard player Scott Shriner
Weezer – formed in 1992 – features singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, rhythm guitarist Brian Bell, and bass/keyboard player Scott (pictured in 2019)
‘I’m here to thank the incredible oncology team here, who pulled me through a complicated operation without a hitch. I am always so grateful for every second of the compassionate, and excellent medical care I receive in my life,’ she added.
Meanwhile, her husband’s band Weezer are currently scheduled to perform at Coachella on Saturday, joining Yo Gabba Gabba! and Ed Sheeran on the first weekend of the desert festival.
Weezer – formed in 1992 – features singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, rhythm guitarist Brian Bell, and bass/keyboard player Shriner.
Their 2017 album Pacific Daydream scored a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, which air February 10 on CBS.
Weezer’s last new album came in 2022, when they released a series of four records in line with each season.