Video launched in LAPD capturing of Weezer bassist’s spouse – NBC Los Angeles
Newly launched police video exhibits the spouse of Weezer’s bassist armed with a handgun as she was being confronted by uniformed LAPD officers who have been looking out her Eagle Rock neighborhood earlier this month for a trio of hit-and-run suspects.
“Put the gun down!, hey put the gun down,” officers are heard saying as they appeared over a wood yard fence April 8 and noticed the lady, later recognized as Jillian Lauren Shriner.
“Lay the gun down,” officers yelled repeatedly.
“Ma’am, put the gun down,” one other officer shouted. “Ma’am, we’re attempting that can assist you!”
One officer is recorded saying, “She simply pointed it, not at us, however she simply lifted it up.”
Seconds later, one other officer says, “Oh she racked it,” and gunfire adopted instantly.
The LAPD says two officers fired and wounded Shriner within the shoulder. No officers have been injured.
Not less than eight gunshots could possibly be heard within the recording.
Shriner, 51, was handled at a hospital and booked on suspicion of the tried homicide of a police officer. Jail information present she posted a $1 million bond and is due in courtroom April 30.
As of Friday, no legal costs had been filed by prosecutors, who’re nonetheless reviewing the proof within the case.
Safety video from the Shriner dwelling, obtained by the LAPD and included within the Division’s edited video presentation of the incident, confirmed Shriner rising from her dwelling with a black pistol in her proper hand.
A number of safety video angles that didn’t seize sound confirmed her strolling across the perimeter of her home previous to the confrontation with officers. A phase that the LAPD enhanced exhibits Shriner elevating the pistol and showing to fireplace a shot earlier than officers returned hearth.
Earlier this month, the LAPD mentioned a spent cartridge case from Shriner’s 9mm pistol was discovered on the scene, and mentioned she was shot after she, “Repeatedly ignored police instructions to disarm.”
The brand new LAPD video exhibits a picture of the shell casing subsequent to an proof marker.
The occasions that led to the capturing started round 3:25 p.m. when CHP officers requested backup whereas trying to find three individuals who fled from a hit-and-run crash alongside the 134 Freeway close to Figueroa Avenue locally east of Los Angeles.
A number of LAPD officers from the Northeast Division arrived and arrange a containment within the space, then went to a house on Waldo Place the place an individual was seen working by means of a yard, in line with an preliminary account supplied by police.
Whereas the officers have been within the yard they noticed a lady, later recognized as Shriner, within the yard of a neighboring dwelling. They ordered her to drop the gun, then fired when the LAPD mentioned she pointed the gun in the direction of the officers.
