Weezer bassist speaks out after wife Jillian Shriner shot by police
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner is speaking out after his wife, bestselling author Jillian Shriner, was shot by police during an altercation Tuesday.
"She's alright, thank you for asking," Scott Shriner told The New York Post in a conversation outside his home Thursday. "See you at Coachella!" he added, indicating that his band would perform as planned for the Southern California music festival this weekend.
Following an incident outside the couple's LA home on Tuesday, Jillian Shriner was absentee booked for attempted murder, according to a press release issued by the Los Angeles Police Department Wednesday afternoon. Suspects who are hospitalized are often booked in absentia.
Per the LAPD, she is facing an attempted murder charge. Jillian Shriner posted a $1 million bond around 10 p.m. Wednesday night, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department inmate records.
She is scheduled to make a court appearance on April 30 in downtown Los Angeles, per inmate records.
Shriner was shot after officers said that despite multiple orders to drop a nine-millimeter handgun, Shriner "refused," then "pointed the handgun at the officers."
The shooting was connected to a hit-and-run incident on a nearby freeway Tuesday afternoon, which led to a hunt for three suspects in the Eagle Rock neighborhood, located in northeast Los Angeles County, according to the LAPD.
Officers allegedly tracked one suspect to the backyard of a house and "observed a female, later identified as 51-year-old Jillian Shriner, in the yard of a neighboring residence armed with a handgun." Police confirmed she was standing in her own yard and also was not involved in the hit-and-run.
After Shriner was shot, police say she "fled into her residence." She allegedly later left her home, was taken into custody and transported to a hospital for a "non-life-threatening gunshot wound."
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office does not have information on Shriner's case as of Thursday morning, a spokesperson confirmed to Paste BN.
Paste BN has reached out to the Shriners' representatives for comment.
The investigation into the case is "ongoing" and in preliminary stages, the LAPD said. One hit-and-run suspect was detained, cited and released by California Highway Patrol, while two other suspects remain at large.
Jillian and Scott Shriner, who were married in 2005, have two sons. Jillian Shriner, who describes herself on her website as a "writer, storyteller, adoption advocate, rock-wife" and "true-crime expert," wrote the New York Times bestselling memoir "Some Girls: My Life in a Harem" and "Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer."
Weezer is scheduled to perform Saturday at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Southern California's Coachella Valley.
This story was updated to include video and new information.