The wife of a 90s rock star was sh0t by police in Los Angeles after she allegedly pointed her gun at officers trying to catch a hit-and-run suspect.
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren, 51, was taken into custody alongside her babysitter on Tuesday afternoon when she refused to obey their orders and put the gun down.
Police say the saga began with a three-car crash in the eastbound lanes of the 134 Freeway at around 3pm, when one of the suspects believed to have been involved in the collision exited their vehicle and fled on foot.
As the suspects ran from the scene, officers say Lauren came out from one of the nearby homes with a weapon in her hand. When officers then tried to get her to drop the weapon, they said she refused to listen and a cop shot at Lauren, hitting her in the shoulder.
Lauren, an author by trade, then went back into the house after she was struck, and later emerged from the abode with her hands up in surrender, police said.
She was then booked in connection with attempted murd£r.
Meanwhile, the driver of the car that crashed in the hit-and-run was detained by California Highway Patrol officers, cited and released.
Alana Altmeyer and her brother Guy Binn explained to KTLA that they were on the freeway Tuesday afternoon when they saw the suspect walk away from the scene.
‘I saw a gentleman walking n the shoulder. So my brother and I went over and assumed that he was leaving the scene of an accident,’ Altmeyer recounted.
When they then gave chase, she said the man tried to run to the opposite side of the freeway and fell.
‘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 run 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.’
Fortunately, LA police officers were able to catch up with the suspect near the intersection of Waldo Place and Eagle Vista in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, and that is when they said Lauren got involved.
She exited one of the nearby houses with her gun pointed at the suspect.
Police said they gave her multiple commands to drop the weapon, before an officer fired at her – hitting her in the shoulder before she ran back inside the house.
A short time later, Lauren re-emerged with her babysitter by her side.
They were seen with both of their hands raised, as officers ordered them down the driveway, where the two 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 – who was also taken into custody, according to CBS News.
She was absentee booked on suspicion of attempted murder as she was 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.
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Video reveals the now-viral arrest of Jillian Lauren, author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.
Sources say she was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder. pic.twitter.com/sgMa6KSISy
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 10, 2025
