Weezer Bassist Spouse Seen Holding Gun in LAPD Video

Two weeks after officers shot and wounded bestselling writer Jillian Lauren, the spouse of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, outdoors her Los Angeles dwelling, the LAPD launched dramatic bodycam and safety video Friday that seems to indicate Lauren racking and firing a gun whereas standing in her yard.

Within the montage of a number of bodycam video recordings, a number of officers are heard yelling repeatedly at a lady recognized by the LAPD as Lauren. They’re standing behind a fence, so the lady just isn’t seen on the peak of the chest-level video. Greater than 10 occasions, the officers shout on the girl to drop her gun. Towards the top of the alternate, one officer identifies himself as “police” whereas one other shouts that he’s with the California Freeway Patrol.

Separate video from Lauren’s dwelling surveillance system provides one other perspective. It reveals her exiting her home holding a black handgun and strolling across the perimeter, wanting excessive and low. The video seems to indicate her manipulating and firing the gun, however it’s recorded from a distance and is soundless. After what seems to be a slight recoil, Lauren walks away, wanting comparatively calm. In keeping with the police body-worn footage, as quickly an an officer warned, “Oh, she racked it,” police opened fireplace, unloading greater than a half-dozen, ear-splitting photographs.  

The LAPD shared the footage on the division’s YouTube channel Friday afternoon, modifying it into an almost 22-minute presentation to share what they described because the state of proof thus far within the high-profile case, which stays underneath investigation. The incident occurred round 3:55 p.m. on April 8, the LAPD stated. Officers flooded the realm round Lauren’s dwelling in a neighborhood often called Eagle Rock as a result of they had been on the lookout for a number of hit-and-run suspects who fled a close-by visitors accident and had been considered hiding in yards.

About an hour after the capturing, Lauren exited her dwelling and was arrested with out incident, police stated. She was taken to a hospital for remedy of her non-life-threatening gunshot wound on her arm. She was later booked in absentia on suspicion of tried homicide. She was granted launch on bail and has a court docket date set for April 30, on-line reserving data verify.

“Whereas within the rear yard of [one] residence, the officers noticed a lady in an adjoining rear yard, armed with a handgun,” LAPD Commander Alex Chogyoji says within the new video launched Friday. He refers to Lauren by her married title, Shriner, although she is thought professionally by Lauren.

“The officers gave Shriner repeated verbal instructions to drop the handgun, nevertheless, she didn’t comply,” Chogyoji says. “Moments later, Shriner racked the handgun, pointed it on the officers and fired, leading to an officer concerned capturing.”

Chogyoji says investigators recovered a 9mm Glock handgun and a spent shell casing from the residence. The YouTube video additionally contains a number of 911 calls associated to the incident. One seems to be from somebody who was within the dwelling with Lauren after she was shot. The person tells the operator that Lauren was shot by somebody amid a police manhunt. Lauren is heard speaking within the background, explaining what occurred. “I had my gun, and he stated, ‘Put down that gun. Put down that gun.’ I stated, ‘Put down your fucking gun.’ After which he shot me,” Lauren says. “There are three males out on the different facet of this fence right here.”

Lauren, 51, didn’t reply to a request for touch upon the video made public Friday. She launched her first memoir, Some Women: My Life in a Harem, in 2010, and her second, The whole lot You Ever Wished, in Might 2015. Each books, launched underneath the title Jillian Lauren, are New York Occasions bestsellers.

Weezer, in the meantime, carried out at Coachella Weekend One as deliberate, regardless of the incident.