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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Jillian Lauren, writer and woman of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was changeable and injured by Los Angeles constabulary and arrested connected suspicion of attempted execution aft pointing a weapon astatine officers from her beforehand yard, authorities said Wednesday.
The 51-year-old Lauren, identified by constabulary arsenic Jillian Shriner and listed arsenic Jillian Lauren Shriner successful jailhouse records, had injuries that were not life-threatening aft the shooting successful the northeast Los Angeles vicinity of Eagle Rock connected Thursday, the LAPD said successful a statement.
Scott Shriner and Jillian Lauren get for The 2019 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival held astatine Regal LA Live Stadium 14 connected February 15, 2019, successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)Her representatives did not instantly respond to requests for remark and determination is nary denotation Scott Shriner was progressive successful 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 successful their hunt for 3 suspects from a misdemeanor hit-and-run. Lauren was not among the suspects. But portion pursuing 1 of them who had reportedly been moving done a backyard, constabulary came upon Lauren successful the beforehand gait of her neighboring residence, holding a handgun.
They ordered her respective times to driblet the gun, but she refused, and pointed it astatine them, constabulary allege. They did not accidental whether she fired the gun, but said she was deed by constabulary gunfire and fled into her home.
Nexstar's KTLA caught aerial footage of Shriner and different woman, reportedly her child’s babysitter, coming retired of the residence with their hands up. The 2 women were ordered to locomotion down the driveway and told to prevarication connected the thoroughfare portion constabulary took them some into custody.
Medical unit with the L.A. Fire Department who were connected standby enactment the 51-year-old into an ambulance and took her to the infirmary wherever she was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, constabulary said.
A 9-millimeter handgun was recovered from Shriner’s home, the constabulary connection said.
She was aboriginal booked and was being held connected $1 cardinal bail, LA County jailhouse records showed.
The incidental began erstwhile the California Highway Patrol responded to reports of a three-car crash, successful which 3 men successful 1 of the progressive vehicles ran from the freeway, prompting CHP to telephone L.A. constabulary for backup.
One of the suspects, who was chased disconnected 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 excavation and watered their plot successful an effort to blend in.
While constabulary were searching backyards for that suspect, they encountered Lauren.
The different 2 men who allegedly fled the country of the clang are inactive astatine large.
Lauren has not made a tribunal appearance, and it was not instantly wide whether she has hired a lawyer. There were nary contiguous responses to an email to her manager and a connection near connected her writer website. There was besides nary effect to an email seeking remark from a typical for Weezer.
Lauren is the writer of 2 memoirs, 2010's “Some Girls: My Life successful a Harem” and 2015's “Everything You Ever Wanted.”
Weezer is simply a Los Angeles set beloved for their 1994 grounds unofficially known arsenic the “Blue Album,” featuring songs including “Say It Ain't So” and “Buddy Holly.” Shriner joined the set successful the aboriginal 2000s.
Lauren and Shriner joined successful 2005. They person 2 children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
