By Megan Cartwright
Jillian Lauren, a bestselling author and the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot by Los Angeles police and later booked for attempted murder.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Lauren emerged from her home with a handgun during an active search for suspects involved in a freeway hit-and-run following a police chase that spilled into her Eagle Rock neighborhood. After allegedly refusing to comply with commands to drop the weapon and pointing it at officers, police opened fire, striking her in the shoulder.
Initially taken into custody and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, Lauren was later booked in absentia for attempted murder. She was not involved in the original hit-and-run incident that triggered the police response, according to law enforcement authorities.