Bestselling author Jillian Lauren Shriner, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, has been shot by police in Los Angeles and accused of murder.
The Los Angeles Police Department reports that Shriner, a true crime writer, memoirist and novelist known as Jillian Lauren who grew up in Livingston, was shot by police after she pointed a gun at officers.
Officers said they had ordered her to drop the weapon “numerous times.”
The report says that police had responded to a call for backup from the California Highway Patrol at about 3:25 p.m. Tuesday to assist with the search for hit-and-run suspects who had fled into a residential neighborhood after a three-car accident.
They converged on a house where they spotted one of the suspects.
They said they found Shriner, 51, in her nearby yard holding a gun.
According to the report, after police shot Shriner, she ran into her home. Officers detained her and paramedics took her to a hospital where she was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police seized her 9-millimeter gun.
Police say Shriner was not involved in the hit-and-run they were investigating (one suspect was detained then released), but she was “absentee” booked for attempted murder.
Shriner, an alum of Newark Academy, is the author of the 2010 bestselling memoir “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem,” about her experiences in the ‘90s with Jefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei and brother of the Sultan of Brunei.
Shriner is also the author of the 2011 novel “Pretty,” the 2015 memoir “Everything You Ever Wanted” and the 2023 book “Behold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer” about serial killer Samuel Little.
The 2021 Starz docuseries “Confronting a Serial Killer” follows her investigation of Little.
In 2005, she married Scott Shriner, who started playing with Weezer as a bassist in 2001. They have two sons.
Weezer is scheduled to play the Coachella Valley Music Festival Saturday in Indio, California.
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