When police got here to the cul de sac street in Los Angeles the place Jillian Lauren lives along with her husband, Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, they had been pursuing a suspect in a hit-and-run. However Lauren was shot after police say she pointed a gun at them. The couple are seen right here in 2018.
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Los Angeles police have booked Jillian Lauren, an creator and the spouse of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, on suspicion of tried homicide — after a rare sequence of occasions that included officers taking pictures at and wounding Lauren within the yard of her house.
Lauren suffered a non-life-threatening harm when she was shot. Her husband was not concerned within the incident. She was launched on bond Wednesday, and a court docket date has been set for April 30, in keeping with police information.
NPR’s requests for remark from Lauren’s enterprise and authorized representatives early Thursday weren’t instantly returned. The native prosecutor’s workplace has additionally not but replied to questions on potential costs towards Lauren.
Particulars in regards to the taking pictures are nonetheless rising. This is what we all know to this point:
It began with a automotive crash
California Freeway Patrol officers had been pursuing three suspects who fled the scene of a misdemeanor hit-and-run on the Ventura Freeway Tuesday, after they radioed for backup round 3:25 p.m. native time, in keeping with a information launch from the Los Angeles Police Division.
The suspects bumped into the close by Eagle Rock neighborhood, west of Pasadena. A suspect was seen working behind a home on Waldo Place — the cul de sac road the place Lauren lives.
When officers reached the yard of a home the place the suspect was seen, they noticed a lady, later recognized as Lauren, holding a pistol in a neighboring yard. She is known as Jillian Lauren Shriner in police paperwork.
Police converged on this road within the Eagle Rock neighborhood, pursuing a suspect in a close-by hit-and-run. Officers encountered Jillian Lauren in her yard, holding a pistol, in keeping with a police information launch.
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Lauren was shot, after which surrendered
“The officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun quite a few occasions; nevertheless, she refused,” the information launch stated. “Shriner then pointed the handgun on the officers, and an Officer-Concerned Taking pictures occurred.”
Lauren, 51, went into her home after being struck by gunfire, in keeping with the official account. Native TV information helicopters — which had been hovering above the world of the automotive crash — confirmed the scene as Lauren emerged from her house. She and one other girl lay face-down on the bottom, and officers positioned handcuffs on Lauren.
{The handcuffs} had been later eliminated, as Lauren was placed on a stretcher and lifted into an ambulance. Police say she “was handled for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound” — to her shoulder, in keeping with native TV channel KTLA — at a neighborhood hospital.
The LAPD says a 9-millimeter handgun was discovered at Lauren’s house.
Lauren was not concerned with the hit-and-run, police say. However due to the encounter with police in her yard, she was “absentee booked” for tried homicide. An absentee reserving is frequent in situations the place a suspect is injured and receiving medical care, fairly than being processed into the jail system.
As for the hit-and-run crash, one of many three suspects was detained, cited and launched by California Freeway Patrol.
Lauren is an creator
Jillian Lauren has written a number of memoirs and novels, together with Some Women: My Life in a Harem, her account of her experiences as a member of the Prince of Brunei’s harem.
Her most up-to-date e-book, Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, is an expansive true-crime story in regards to the serial killer Samuel Little. Lauren obtained the concept for the e-book after talking with an LAPD murder detective, in keeping with the e-book’s writer.
Lauren can also be an adoption advocate, who has drawn on her experiences as each an adopted little one and the adoptive mom of two sons to contribute a narrative to “The Moth” and to ship a TEDx Speak.
