Author and wife of Weezer bassist pleads not guilty to charges from LAPD shooting

Los Angeles County prosecutors filed transgression charges Tuesday against Jillian Lauren Shriner, a bestselling writer who is joined to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, pursuing an incidental past period wherever she was wounded by constabulary aft allegedly shooting astatine them from her backyard.

The author, who publishes nether the past sanction Lauren, appeared successful a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, pleading not blameworthy to felony charges for willful discharge of a firearm successful a gross negligent mode and battle of a idiosyncratic with a semiautomatic firearm. Prosecutors are besides seeking a firearms sentencing enhancement. She faces up to 19 years successful authorities situation if convicted connected counts.

Lauren, 51, sported an all-white suit arsenic she stood earlier the justice to participate her plea. She and her lawyers, Hilary Potashner and Kim Wilkinson, declined to remark aft the hearing.

Lauren was initially booked April 9 connected suspicion of attempted execution aft a bewildering brushwood with the LAPD. That afternoon, officers were searching for 3 hit-and-run suspects pursuing a clang connected the 134 Freeway. According to 911 calls from the area, the suspects were attempting to fell successful vicinity backyards astir Eagle Rock.

The pursuit led officers to Lauren’s property, wherever a confrontation ensued arsenic she stood successful her backyard equipped with a handgun.

Police assemblage cameras and location surveillance videos appeared to amusement Lauren raising her weapon and pointing it astatine a obstruction wherever officers had taken cover. Police said she refused their commands to driblet the limb and fired astatine them. The constabulary said they changeable back, hitting Lauren successful the arm.

She fled backmost into her home, wherever she remained for astir an hr earlier she was hospitalized and aboriginal taken into custody by the Highway Patrol.

There are immoderate indications Lauren whitethorn person been incapable to perceive the officers owed to a constabulary chopper hovering supra the scene, perchance mistaking them for the hit-and-run suspects. In a video released by the LAPD, a neighbour could beryllium heard telling a 911 dispatcher Lauren was confused astir what happened: “There were 3 men, and 1 of them changeable her, and the cops are looking for him close present … They person their guns out.”

The New Jersey autochthonal has been named a New York Times Bestselling Author for her books, “Everything You Ever Wanted” and “Some Girls: My Life successful a Harem” wherever she recounts her encounters with Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei. Most recently, she published “Behold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer,” a look wrong the caput of serial slayer Samuel Little. She and Shriner person been joined since 2005 and they person 2 sons together.

Lauren’s preliminary proceeding to find whether the cases against her volition determination guardant is scheduled for June 18.