Weezer’s Scott Shriner speaks out after spouse is shot by police and arrested for tried homicide

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner has issued a press release after his spouse was shot by police and arrested for tried homicide earlier this week.

Jillian Shriner, who's an creator who publishes beneath the pen title Jillian Lauren, was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Tuesday (April 8) after sustaining a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a police officer.

An announcement from the Los Angeles Police Division revealed that officers had been pursuing an unrelated hit-and-run automobile chase when one of many suspects tried to enter Shriner’s property. Shriner is alleged to have fired on the suspect after which pointed her gun at officers and refused to decrease it when requested. An “officer-involved capturing” then occurred, with Shriner being shot within the shoulder by an officer.

Shriner fled to her own residence, however was later taken to hospital for remedy after which taken into custody. She was subsequently “booked for tried homicide”, LAPD confirmed. A 9mm handgun was then recovered from her home.

Scott Shriner has now spoken out on the weird incident, responding to a New York Post reporter exterior his Los Angeles house on Thursday (April 10).

“She’s alright, thanks for asking,” the bassist stated, and declined to enter additional particulars about his spouse’s state of affairs. “See you at Coachella,” he added.

As an creator, Shriner wrote Behold The Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, an investigation into the murders dedicated by Samuel Little, who died whereas incarcerated in 2020. The e book was printed a yr later.

Final month (March 23), Shriner posted on Instagram that she had been recovering from “two again to again surgical procedures”, which included a hysterectomy. Shriner and her husband Scott have two adopted sons.

As referenced by Shriner, earlier this week (April 6), Weezer and Ed Sheeran had been added to the line-up of Coachella 2025, set to happen over the following two weekends.

The band may even embark on a UK and Europe tour later this yr and you may get tickets here (UK/Eire) and here (Europe).

2024 noticed them have a good time the thirtieth anniversary of their 1994 debut document, ‘The Blue Album’, with a run of particular exhibits, a brand new live performance movie, and a “complete” and expanded reissue of the LP.