On April 8th, Jillian Shriner – wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner – was shot by police and arrested for suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer. Now, the LAPD has released videos of the incident and the events leading up to the officer involved shooting.
The video – which includes a compilation of surveillance and body camera footage edited by the LAPD – shows officers arriving in Shriner’s neighborhood in search of a hit-and-run suspect.
While searching for the suspect in residences’ backyards, officers saw a woman (Jillian Shriner) step into her backyard armed with a handgun. The video shows Jillian looking around her backyard with her gun. While there is no audio on the surveillance video, in the body cam footage officers can be heard repeatedly yelling at Jillian to “put down the gun” while pointing their own guns at her over the fence.
One officer screams, “ma’am we’re trying to help you!” Another says, “you’re going to get shot, it’s the police!”
A few moments later, an officer says, “She just pointed it. Not at us but she just lifted it up.” Then he says, “she racked it!” and officers start shooting, firing multiple shots.
Surveillance video taken from the Shriners’ home shows the moment she was shot, though the clip has no audio.
After she is hit, Jillian then walks back into her home.
The compilation video posted to YouTube by the LAPD includes a 9-1-1 call made after Jillian was shot by a woman who was with her. From the call, it appears that both Jillian and the woman believed that the hit-and-run suspect was the one behind the fence and was the one who shot her. Neither the woman nor Jillian mention the police officers making commands and firing their weapons in the call.
Jillian can be heard in the 9-1-1 call telling the dispatcher that she was shot by the hit-and-run suspect. “I had my gun… and he said ‘put down that gun, put down that gun’ and I said ‘put down your f**king gun.’ And then he shot me,” she said.
Following the incident, Jillian was taken to the hospital and booked for attempted murder. She has since been released from custody after posting bail, and is due in court on April 30th.
