Los Angeles police release video of armed confrontation that wounded author, wife of Weezer bassist
Police released the excerpts from body camera recordings, surveillance video and audio of 911 dispatch conversations on Friday. The video clips show officers peering over a high wooden fence into a yard and shouting over the noise of a surveillance helicopter at a woman to put down her gun or risk getting shot. The fence obscures from the cameras what is on the other side.
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'Ma'am, we're trying to help you. Put the gun down,' a voice says. 'You're going to get shot. It's the police.'
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An officer indicates that the woman has cocked a gun — 'Oh, she racked it' — immediately before the sound of at least six shots rings out.
In a separate segment of silent surveillance video from Lauren's backyard, she can be seen exiting the home barefoot and carrying a pistol in her right hand. Another segment shows Lauren from behind, apparently raising a gun that is briefly visible. Dirt kicks up near her feet, and she turns and walks toward a doorway to the house.
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Further body camera video shows Lauren lying prone in the middle of a residential road as police place handcuffs behind her back, while noting that she has a wound on her arm.
Lauren's published works include two bestselling memoirs — 2010s 'Some Girls: My Life in a Harem' and 2015's 'Everything You Ever Wanted.'
Weezer is a Los Angeles-based band, beloved especially for its 1994 record unofficially known as the 'Blue Album,' with songs including 'Say It Ain't So.' Shriner joined the band in the early 2000s.
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