Best-selling author Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was taken to custody after being shot at by police in a bizarre incident in Los Angeles on Tuesday April 8.
It is alleged true crime expert Lauren, 51, pointed her gun at officers who were trying to catch a hit-and-run suspect, and refused to lower it when asked.
Police said Shriner was shot and fled to her residence. She was later taken to custody, and paramedics transported her to hospital to be treated for a non-life threatening gunshot wound.
The incident began at 3.25pm on Tuesday afternoon, when police responded to a backup request from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in locating three misdemeanour hit-and-run suspects, who fled into a residential neighbourhood.
Uniformed officers responded and were directed by CHP to the back of a residence, where one suspect was seen running.
As the officers arrived into the rear yard of the aforementioned house, they saw a woman, later identified as Lauren, in the yard of a neighbouring house allegedly armed with a handgun.
‘The officers ordered Shriner [Lauren] to drop the handgun numerous times; however, she refused. Shriner [Lauren] then pointed the handgun at the officers, and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred,’ the police said.
It was later determined that Lauren was not involved in the hit-and-run and lived at the residence where she was found.
‘She was ultimately absentee booked for attempted murder,’ police added.
A 9-millimetre handgun was recovered from her residence.
Since 2001, 90s rock band Weezer has consisted of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, and Scott Shriner.
They are due to play at Coachella in a matter of weeks, and are booked for Glastonbury in June, returning to Worthy Farm after a 30-year absence.
Lauren is the former call girl for Jefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei, who she wrote a memoir about called Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, which has been translated into 18 languages.
She also wrote the 2015 memoir All You Ever Wanted, and published her first novel Pretty in 2011.
In 2023 Lauren published a best-selling true crime book Behold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, for which she undertook extensive interviews with Samuel Little, who confessed to committing 93 murders between 1970 and 2005.
It blended narrative in her retelling of the victims’ final hours from their perspective – as described to her by Little – and true crime reporting.
Lauren’s notes and insights helped a national task force led by LAPD, FBI, and Texas Ranger officers close many of the cold cases Little was responsible for.
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Before his death in 2020, Little named Lauren his next of kin, giving her possession of his ashes and his remaining trinkets.
Alongside her writing – which has appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair,, Elle and others – Lauren also hosted a TEDx Talk about adoption and identity in 2014.
She’s been interviewed on TV shows including Good Morning America.
Shriner and Lauren married in 2005, and share two adopted children together.
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