Woman shot by police was Weezer member’s wife
Jillian Shriner, wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot by LAPD officers in Eagle Rock, according to TMZ.
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Jillian Shriner, a bestselling author who is married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, is facing an attempted murder charge after police shot her in an altercation Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a press release that officers were pursuing three hit-and-run suspects Tuesday when they tracked one of them to the backyard of a house. As the officers arrived, they allegedly observed Shriner, 51, “armed with a handgun” in the yard of her own home nearby. She was not involved in the hit-and-run.
Officers ordered her to drop the handgun, but she refused, the LAPD claimed. Shriner allegedly pointed the handgun at officers and was shot by police before fleeing into her residence. She was later taken into custody and transported to the hospital, police said.
Author Jillian Lauren published books like ‘My Life in a Harem’ before shooting
Shriner, also known as Jillian Lauren, is the author of several books across multiple genres. In 2010, she published her memoir “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem,” which chronicled her time spent in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the Sultan of Brunei.
“At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition,” the book’s synopsis explains. “The ‘casting director’ told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian found herself on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei.”
Shriner followed the bestselling book up in 2015 with another memoir: “Everything You Ever Wanted,” in which she discussed learning “the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs,” per her website. Her novel “Pretty,” about a woman left scarred after a car accident, was published in 2011.
Shriner also published a true crime book in 2023: “Behold the Monster,” for which she interviewed prolific serial killer Samuel Little. The Starz documentary “Confronting a Serial Killer” followed Shriner during the investigation. “I have access to him, so my deal with the devil is, you will not die alone if you tell me the truth,” she said in the documentary’s trailer.
In a conversation with The Crime Vault, Shriner said that when a detective told her about Little’s case, she “saw a chance to jump on an underreported story and to bring some heat to the failure of the justice system to protect the most vulnerable among us.”
Jillian Shriner, Weezer bassist Scott Shriner married 20 years ago
Shriner has been married to Scott Shriner, bassist for Weezer, since 2005. They share two children, both of whom they adopted.
In a TEDx talk in 2014, she shared that her son Tariku, whom she and her husband adopted from Ethiopia, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. “He’s having these violent tantrums like 10 times a day, and we have to go to a therapist to learn how to contain him safely so that he doesn’t hurt himself and anyone else,” she said. Shriner describes herself as an adoption advocate on her website.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson
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