The cops involved in an armed showdown with the estranged wife of Weezer’s bassist fired 12 rounds at gun-welding woman after she shot at them during a wild run-in near her Los Angeles home.
Jillian Lauren, 52, the estranged spouse of Scott Shriner, was arrested for attempted murder in April after she intruded on a police chase near her home and drew her gun on officers.
A new internal review revealed that Lauren pointed and fired her 9-millimeter handgun at two cops in her neighbor’s backyard in Eagle Rock, even after the officers identified themselves as police.
The review written by LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell backed the actions of the two officers who shot at Lauren.
It says they identified themselves as cops and “repeatedly ordered” her “to drop the gun” as they stood with their own weapons drawn in the backyard.
Lauren then “cycled the gun, chambering a round” and “pointed it at the officers and fired at them,” the report continued.
The two cops returned fire, unloading 12 rounds at Lauren’s torso within a few seconds from about 50 feet away.
“I’m scared for my life at that point, as well as for my partner,” recalled one of the officers, identified in the report as Joshua Wolak.
“I had to shoot,” he said.
Lauren was struck in the arm and fled inside her home, where she stayed for about an hour until police called her assistant. She was treated for the wound at a local hospital and released.
Representatives for Lauren declined to comment.
She was not connected to a separate hit-and-run incident that brought police into her neighbor’s yard. One of Lauren’s neighbors indicated that Lauren believed she was being fired at by armed suspects, according to audio from a 911 call placed by one of her neighbors.
The tattooed mother of two sons was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer but charged with the lesser crimes of assault and negligent discharge of a firearm.
She is now enrolled in a two-year mental health diversion program. She said she suffers from PTSD.
The LAPD Police Commission on Tuesday took up McDonnell’s report on Lauren’s shooting produced by the department as a matter of standard policy.
The Commission broke with McDonnell’s assessment in their review of his report. It determined that the two officers and one sergeant involved in the shooting deviated from policy and the officers acted improperly when they opened fire.
It was the second time this year that the civilian commission overruled McDonnell in a police shooting.
In January the commission ruled against the fatal police shooting last February of a transgender woman who was being held against her will inside a Pacoima motel.
Now McDonnell will decide what disciplinary action, if any, will be faced by the officers and their sergeant involved Lauren’s shooting.
In December, Lauren filed for divorce from Weezer bassist Shriner, 60, 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 defended her behavior in her standoff with the LAPD in an interview with Rolling Stone published in December.
“I was doing the best I knew to protect my family,” she told the magazine. “[The] impulse was self-defense.”