Weezer’s Scott Shriner speaks out after wife is shot by police and arrested for attempted murder

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner has issued a statement after his wife was shot by police and arrested for attempted murder earlier this week.

Jillian Shriner, who is an author who publishes under the pen name Jillian Lauren, was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Tuesday (April 8) after sustaining a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a police officer.

A statement from the Los Angeles Police Department revealed that officers were pursuing an unrelated hit-and-run car chase when one of the suspects tried to enter Shriner’s property. Shriner is said to have fired at the suspect and then pointed her gun at officers and refused to lower it when asked. An “officer-involved shooting” then occurred, with Shriner being shot in the shoulder by an officer.

Shriner fled to her own home, but was later taken to hospital for treatment and then taken into custody. She was subsequently “booked for attempted murder”, LAPD confirmed. A 9mm handgun was then recovered from her house.

Scott Shriner has now spoken out on the bizarre incident, responding to a New York Post reporter outside his Los Angeles home on Thursday (April 10).

“She’s alright, thank you for asking,” the bassist said, and declined to go into further details about his wife’s situation. “See you at Coachella,” he added.

As an author, Shriner wrote Behold The Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, an investigation into the murders committed by Samuel Little, who died while incarcerated in 2020. The book was published a year later.

Last month (March 23), Shriner posted on Instagram that she had been recovering from “two back to back surgeries”, which included a hysterectomy. Shriner and her husband Scott have two adopted sons.

As referenced by Shriner, earlier this week (April 6), Weezer and Ed Sheeran were added to the line-up of Coachella 2025, set to take place over the next two weekends.

The band will also embark on a UK and Europe tour later this year and you can get tickets here (UK/Ireland) and here (Europe).

2024 saw them celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1994 debut record, ‘The Blue Album’, with a run of special shows, a new concert film, and a “comprehensive” and expanded reissue of the LP.