Say it ain’t so.
The spouse of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner was shot and struck by cops and has since been booked for tried homicide, The Submit can affirm.
The incident went down within the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock on Tuesday, April 8.
Cops responded to a request for backup in finding three misdemeanor hit-and-run suspects who fled a freeway crash scene and ran right into a residential neighborhood at round 3:25 p.m. PT, per an LAPD press launch.
Whereas officers had been trying to find the suspects, they noticed a feminine, who was later recognized as Scott’s spouse, Jillian Shriner, 51, armed with a handgun exterior her residence.
Police mentioned they yelled for her to drop the gun “quite a few instances” — however she refused.
Jillian then pointed the handgun on the officers, and so they opened fireplace, in accordance with the press launch.
Whereas the LAPD confirms that the musician’s spouse was hit by the gunfire, TMZ studies she was struck within the shoulder.
Cops mentioned Jillian retreated into her residence after being struck — however later got here exterior with one other feminine recognized because the household’s babysitter and was taken into custody.
The self-described rock-wife was transported to an area hospital by Los Angeles Hearth Division paramedics, the place she was handled for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police additionally disclosed they recovered a 9-millimeter handgun from her residence.
Jillian has since been booked for tried homicide.
LAPD additionally shared that no officers or any of the group members had been damage through the shootout and confirmed that Jillian was not concerned within the earlier hit-and-run.
KTLA studies that Jillian and the opposite girl have been launched from police custody.
The Submit has reached out to Weezer and Jillian’s reps and the LAPD for remark. Her consultant confirmed she was shot — however wouldn’t converse concerning the particulars.
KTLA obtained footage from the three-car crash that triggered the manhunt. Additionally they spoke to eyewitnesses who described watching one of many suspects stroll away from the scene.
“I noticed a gentleman strolling on the shoulder,” Alana Altmeyer advised the outlet. “So, my brother and I went over and assumed that he was leaving the scene of an accident.”
She claimed that she and her brother chased after him — and after they did, the male tried to run to the other facet of the freeway and fell down.
“He was bleeding from his head, his mouth and his knees,” Altmeyer claimed.
Nonetheless, that didn’t cease him from allegedly leaping over the facet of the freeway and down an embankment.
“I chased him down the facet of the freeway, throughout the freeway, over a few fences,” her brother, Man Binn, mentioned. “He had a bag and a sweater. I bought his bag. I bought his sweater and me being so previous, I couldn’t sustain with the man. I chased him to the park, and I misplaced him.”
Shriner, who’s been in Weezer since 2001 after changing Mikey Welsh, married Jillian in 2005.
The rocker and his spouse have two adopted youngsters.
