LAPD Releases Footage From Shooting Involving Weezer Bassist’s Wife Jillian Lauren (2025)

The Los Angeles Police Department released footage from a shooting involving Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, including body camera and surveillance video as well as audio from the 911 dispatch conversation from the April 8 incident.

LAPD officers were responding to a hit-and-run involving three suspects in the Eagle Rock neighborhood before the shooting occurred. In the footage that was released Friday, the police can be seen looking over a backyard fence and warning Lauren, identified by the police as Jillian Shriner, to drop her weapon.

“Ma’am, we’re trying to help you. Put the gun down,” someone is heard saying. “You’re going to get shot. It’s the police.”

“Oh, she racked it,” another voice said before the sound of gunshots followed.

After the shooting, Lauren was taken to a local hospital to be treated for “non-life-threatening injuries.” There, she was booked on an attempted murder charge. The day after the shooting, she posted a million-dollar bond and was said to be “alive and well,” her manager told The Hollywood Reporter. Lauren is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.

In another surveillance video, the best-selling author was seen walking around outside her home with a pistol in her right hand. Additional footage was shown of her walking around the outside of her house before the shooting took place alongside a separate video of Lauren lying face down in the road being handcuffed.

She was not involved in the hit-and-run, though police said they captured one of the suspects involved in the crime.

Lauren’s best-selling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, recounts her experience as part of the Prince of Brunei’s harem. She’s also the author of the 2020 novel Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, which details her relationship with serial killer Samuel Little. One year later, she appeared in the Starz docuseries about Little.