The Los Angeles Police Department has released footage of a shootout involving the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.
Jillian Lauren was shot by police after pointing a handgun at officers outside her home on April 8, according to an April 9 press release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
The release noted that Lauren, 51, was taken into custody and transported to a local hospital for a “non-life-threatening gunshot wound.” No officers or additional civilians were injured during the exchange, according to the release.
Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, is making headlines following a confrontation with Los Angeles police. Lauren, 51, was shot and injured by police in April 2025, after pointing a handgun at officers from the front yard of her home in LA’s Eagle Rock neighborhood, the LAPD said in a statement. The […]
The latest footage of the incident, released via YouTube on Friday, April 25, consists of body camera surveillance video in addition to audio from the 911 dispatch call.
Jennifer Forkish, public information director at the LAPD, opened the video by saying that the incident was still under investigation, which could “take up to a year to complete.”
Forkish added that the LAPD would “not draw any conclusions about whether the officers acted consistent with our policies and the law” until the investigation is finalized.
The body camera footage showed multiple officers demanding Lauren put the gun down.
“M’am, we’re trying to help you. Put the gun down,” an unnamed officer can be heard saying in the video. “You’re going to get shot. It’s the police.”
Another said, “Hey, she just pointed it. Not at us, but she just lifted it up… Oh, she racked it!”
The sound of gunshots immediately followed.
The officers encountered Lauren while pursuing three suspects from an unrelated hit-and-run incident.
After the exchange, Lauren was booked for attempted murder. A 9-millimeter handgun was retrieved from the residence she shares with Shriner, 59.
Lauren was released from jail following a $1 million bond, The Hollywood Reporter said on April 10. A court date is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30, the outlet reported.
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner has broken his silence on his wife Jillian Lauren‘s arrest following a shootout with police. “We’re alright, look at us,” Shriner, 59, told TMZ on Thursday, April 10, when asked whether he’s going through a “tough time” right now. He went on to say his wife is “alright” and thanked for […]
The couple have been married since November 2005 and share two sons, Tariku and Jovanni, whom they adopted from Ethiopia in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
“On paper, I might not be considered the best candidate for motherhood,” Lauren wrote on the Motherhood Later blog in 2015. “My husband Scott and I had a long and circuitous road to parenting, including the whole painful infertility thing. We eventually found the right path for us and adopted our son [Tariku] from Ethiopia.”
Lauren’s arrest came several days before Shriner’s performance at Coachella alongside Weezer bandmates Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson and Brian Bell.
As for Lauren, she’s known for her writing career. She detailed her experience working as a call girl for Prince Jefri Bolkiah in her 2010 memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.
She also penned the nonfiction bestseller Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, published in 2023.
