Video Shows Police Shootout with Weezer Rocker's Wife

LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles police on Friday released bodycam footage showing officers shoot the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner in her backyard as they searched for suspects involved in a hit-and-run crash this month.

The footage was filmed April 8 in an Eagle Rock neighborhood near the Ventura (134) Freeway where California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles Police Department officers searched for suspects who fled a pileup on the freeway. Fifty-one year-old Jillian Shriner, who lives in the neighborhood, took her handgun and walked around the perimeter of her backyard as police searched a neighbor's property.

Two officers in the neighbor's yard see her from over the fence and shout at her to drop her gun.

"Put the gun down. Put it down. Put it down on the ground," they shout. "Ma'am, we're trying to help you. Put the gun down. Drop the gun. You're going to get shot. It's the police. California Highway Patrol."

The video appears to show Shriner shoot first after ignoring the repeated police orders to put down her handgun. After officers returned fire, wounding her, she walked back into her house where another woman in the home called 911 for her, according to the LAPD. The audio recording from the 911 call appears to show that Shriner may have believed she exchanged gunfire with the suspect police were searching for.

"She says there were three men, and one of them shot her, and the cops are looking for him now," the other woman tells a police dispatcher.

Shriner can be heard in the background explaining what happened. "He shot from the other side (of the backyard fence). I had my gun, and he said, 'Put down that gun. Put down that gun.' I said put down your 'f---ing gun.' And then he shot me."

About an hour later, she left the house, was ordered to lay down in the street where she was handcuffed, and was taken to a nearby hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics for treatment of a gunshot wound to her arm and back.

No one else was injured in the shooting. She was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and released from custody, according to police.

According to the LAPD, detectives recovered a 9-millimeter handgun from Shriner's home.

According to TMZ, Shriner is the author of "Some Girls: My Life in a Harem," chronicling her time as a "guest" of the Prince of Brunei.

EDITORS NOTE: This video contains graphic images.

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