A wild armed showdown that left Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s estranged wife shot by police has taken a dramatic turn, with the Los Angeles Police Commission finding against officers involved.
Cops shot Jillian Lauren, 52, and charged her with attempted murder in April after she interfered with a wild police chase and drew her gun on officers.
The LAPD Police Commission on Tuesday took up an internal report on Lauren’s shooting produced by the department as a matter of standard policy.
The Commission reviewed the report and determined that the two officers and one sergeant involved in the shooting deviated from policy and the officers acted improperly when they opened fire.
Now LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell will decide what disciplinary action, if any, will be faced by the officers and their sergeant.
Lauren declined to comment.
The drama began when Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a hit-and-run on a freeway near the trendy Eagle Rock neighborhood where Lauren and Shriner lived.
Three suspects fled the crash and headed toward Lauren’s residential neighborhood where cops quickly barricaded off the area.
Lauren exited her home with a handgun and confronted officers with a 9-millimenter handgun.
Police told Lauren several times to drop her gun, but she refused and pointed the weapon at officers. Police opened fire, hitting Lauren.
She was later treated for her non-life-threatening gunshot wound at a local hospital and booked for attempted murder.
“I was doing the best I knew to protect my family,” she said in an interview with Rolling Stone published in December. “[The] impulse was self-defense.”
“My world fell to pieces around me in a heartbeat,” she said of the aftermath. “It’s like, you spend your whole life just getting an entire deck of cards in order. And just take them and throw them up in the air one day, and I’m still waiting to see how they’re gonna land.”
Lauren is a New York Times Bestselling author with several books to her credit, including her 2010 tome “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem,” which is based on her work as a concubine for the youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei.
The tattooed mom of two sons is now enrolled in a two-year mental health diversion program. She said she suffers from PTSD.
“I’m a victim of sex trafficking and domestic violence. … When the headlines said ‘Mental Health Diversion,’ what I really thought was, ‘OK, good. People are so scared to talk about this.’ I’m in a position where I can speak to it.”
“I had to go back and work on trauma from a long time ago in order to try and understand myself now, my actions,” she also told Rolling Stone.
No officers or bystanders were injured in Lauren’s bizarre standoff with police.
One of the suspects connected with the hit-and-run was detained by California Highway Patrol, cited and released. The other two suspects were not located.
Lauren boasts more than 17,000 followers on Instagram, where she describes herself as “Jewess, Marxist, maximalist.”
She has shared scenes from her life on social media, including clips showing her family and promoting her books.
In 2005, she married Weezer bassist Shriner, 60, and together they adopted two children.
In December, she filed for divorce from the musician, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
The author also requested spousal support and joint legal and physical custody of their two teenage sons.
Lauren told Rolling Stone that she and the strings man had been growing apart for years and that her standoff with cops became a “crisis” point.
“Divorce is painful, I don’t care who you are,” she said.
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