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.
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren, 51, was taken into custody alongside her babysitter Tuesday afternoon, when cops say she refused to obey their orders and put the gun down.
It is unclear whether Shriner was involved in the shocking incident ahead of his appearance at Coachella.
Police say the saga began with a three-car crash in the eastbound lanes of the 134 Freeway at around 3pm, when a trio of male suspects believed to have been involved in the collision exited their vehicle and fled on foot – prompting California Highway Patrol officers to call the Los Angeles Police Department for backup.
As the suspects ran from the scene, officers say Lauren came out from one of the nearby homes with a weapon in her hand – though it is unclear whether she actually fired the weapon.
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 murder.
Meanwhile, one of the male suspects in the hit-and-run was detained by California Highway Patrol officers, cited and released.
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 was subsequently booked in connection with attempted murder
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 t 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.
That is when they said Lauren got involved.
She was seen surrendering to authorities on the weekday
Eyewitnesses spoke to the Los Angeles-based TV station about what they saw in the unlikely incident on the spring weekday in the City of Angels.
The wife of the Buddy Holly musician was seen on the shooting range in a social media pic
Lauren was taken to a nearby medical facility by paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire department.
Medical professionals examined her for what was described as ‘a non-life-threatening gunshot wound’ following the violent series of events.
Police said that they took a 9-millimeter handgun from her home upon examining the abode in the wake of the unlikely scenario that played out Wednesday in Southern California.
No one else was injured during Wednesday’s chain of events, police said, adding that Lauren had nothing to do with the initial hit-and-run.
Lauren and her babysitter have since been let go from police custody, KTLA reported Wednesday.
Dailymail.com has reached out to the LAPD for additional comment.