The wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner was arrested after getting involved in a shootout with police during a chase in Los Angeles.
According to a Wednesday, April 9, news release from the Los Angeles Police Department, the authorities were in pursuit of a hit-and-run suspect in a residential neighborhood on Tuesday, April 8. A woman who was later identified as Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, was observed in a “neighboring residence armed with a handgun.”
“The officers ordered [Lauren] to drop the handgun numerous times,” the statement read. “However, she refused. [Lauren] then pointed the handgun at the officers and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred.”
The LAPD stated that Lauren, 51, was “struck by gunfire and fled into her residence.” Lauren later exited the home and was taken into custody. She was transported by paramedics to a local hospital to treat a “non-life-threatening gunshot wound.” No other officers or members of the community were injured during the exchange.
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The authorities later determined that Lauren was “uninvolved” in the hit-and-run. One suspect connected to the hit-and-run was detained by California Highway Patrol. Two remain at large, per the LAPD. The incident is still under investigation.
Lauren was absentee booked for attempted murder. A nine-millimeter handgun was retrieved from her and Shriner’s residence.
Us Weekly has reached out to Shriner and Lauren for comment.
The incident comes just as Shriner, 59, is gearing up to perform at Coachella. Weezer, which also consists of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson and Brian Bell, were added to the musical festival’s lineup last minute alongside Ed Sheeran. The rock band is scheduled to take the stage at the Mojave tent on Saturday, April 12.
Shriner and Lauren have been married since November 2005. The couple share two sons, Tariku and Jovanni, whom they adopted from Ethiopia in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
Before tying the knot with the Weezer musician, Lauren was a former call girl for the Prince of Brunei, Jefri Bolkiah. Lauren wrote about her experience with the prince in her memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Lauren previously opened up about her fertility struggles and becoming a mother following her controversial past.
“On paper, I might not be considered the best candidate for motherhood. 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 from Ethiopia,” she said on the Motherhood Later blog in 2015.
“In our early years of parenting, I put a lot of pressure on myself to be very, very good, in order to make up for my scandalous past. This was supposed to be my redemption story,” she added “What I found instead is that being a good mother wasn’t so much about transcending my past but rather about drawing from my entire range of experiences and learning to embrace the imperfections.”
