Rockstar's wife shot in LA after hit-and-run suspect hid next door
A police manhunt through the suburbs of Los Angeles involving a man in his boxer shorts ended with the shooting of a rockstar's wife in her front garden.
The chase was triggered by a hit-and-run on a highway, which was filmed from a helicopter by local television networks.
A brother and sister who witnessed the crash chased after one of the injured suspects as he climbed over an embankment and raced through the Eagle Rock neighbourhood.
The man tried to blend into the neighbourhood by stripping down to his boxers, jumping into the swimming pool of a residential home and innocuously watering garden plants during the hour-and-a-half long pursuit.
The chase took an even more unusual turn when officers who had been scrambling to apprehend the suspect on Eagle Vista Drive, found the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner holding a handgun in her front garden next door.
Jillian Lauren, 51, was shot in the shoulder by police when she aimed the gun at officers and repeatedly refused orders to drop her weapon.
She retreated inside her home but came back outside 30 minutes later with the family babysitter.
Both gave themselves up to the police.
Aerial photographs from the scene show five LAPD officers aiming their handguns at Lauren lying face down spread-eagled on the road.
She was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder and treated at hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, LAPD said in a statement.
A 9mm handgun was found inside her home by police.
She was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail, according to the LA County jail records.
Lauren, who also goes by the name Jillian Shriner, was a former member of a Brunei prince's harem.
In her 2010 autobiography Some Girls, Lauren described how she was one of several paid young female guests of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, between 1992 and 1995 and earned around £232,000.
She later became a bestselling true-crime author following her interviews with Sam Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history. A five-part documentary series based on her work Behold the Monster: Facing America's Most Prolific Serial Killer, was broadcast in 2021.
The day before the shooting Lauren posted a photo on Instagram from her book tour in New York.
Weezer is a Los Angeles band beloved for their 1994 record unofficially known as the 'Blue Album,' featuring songs including 'Say It Ain't So' and 'Buddy Holly.' Shriner joined the band in the early 2000s.
Lauren and Shriner married in 2005, and they have two children.
Alana Altmeyer and Guy Binn, the brother and sister who witnessed the crash on the highway, recounted how they chased after the suspect.
Mr Binn, who said the suspect had wounds on his head and body. told KTLA news channel: 'I chased him down the side of the freeway, across the freeway, over a couple of fences.
'He had a bag and a sweater. I got his bag. I got his sweater and me being so old, I couldn't keep up with the guy. I chased him to the park, and I lost him.'
The suspect from the crash was later seen being handcuffed by officers and led to a car while only wearing a pair of blue-coloured boxers. The two other suspects remain at large.
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