(Credits: Far Out / Fred Gasch / Jillian Lauren)
Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and a best-selling author, has pleaded not guilty to felony gun charges after she reportedly opened fire at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Lauren made her first appearance in court after allegedly shooting at the Los Angeles Police Department on April 8th. She has been charged with discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The author faces up to 19 years in federal prison if convicted.
Lauren was arrested for attempted murder after firing in the direction of officers. It came after the police scoured her area for an unrelated hit-and-run suspect. Footage from her home surveillance and police body cams shows Lauren holding and firing a gun, though there is no sound on the footage.
Police state they told Lauren to drop the gun approximately a dozen times amid the stand-off. Lauren reportedly aimed at the officers after refusing to heed this warning. As heard in the footage, as soon as an officer noted, “Oh, she racked it”, the police opened fire. They unloaded over six shots, one of which hit Lauren’s arm.
According to audio released by the LAPD, Lauren appears to believe that she was shooting at the hit-and-run suspects, unaware that they were police officers.
Amid this controversy, Weezer still played a Coachella set on April 12th, where the band did not acknowledge the situation. Her husband only released a brief statement to confirm he would still take to the stage and to thank the public for their support before simply adding, “She’s alright”, regarding his wife’s well-being.
Lauren is an author who has written two memoirs: 2010’s Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and 2015’s Everything You Ever Wanted. She has been married to Weezer’s Scott Shriner since 2005 and shares two children with him.
Lauren will return to court on June 18th for a preliminary hearing.
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