by Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and a best-selling author, has been found eligible for a mental health diversion after she reportedly opened fire at the Los Angeles Police Department in April.
Lauren had originally been charged with discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm; the author faces up to 19 years in federal prison if convicted.
On September 25th, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge found that, should she follow several conditions, such as abstaining from drugs and alcohol, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and not having any guns or knives, the charges would be dismissed after two years.
“We think this was the right resolution,” Lauren’s lawyer, Hilary Lee Potashner, tells Rolling Stone, adding that everybody in her team was “very pleased” with the new outcome.
Lauren was first arrested in April for attempted murder after firing in the direction of officers. It came after the police scoured her area for an unrelated hit-and-run suspect. Footage from her home surveillance and police body cams shows Lauren holding and firing a gun, though there is no sound on the footage.
According to audio released by the LAPD, Lauren appears to believe that she was shooting at the hit-and-run suspects, unaware that they were police officers.
Lauren is an author who has written two memoirs: 2010’s Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and 2015’s Everything You Ever Wanted. She has been married to Weezer’s Shriner since 2005 and shares two children with him.
Her husband has been relatively quiet about the incident. In April, in the lead up to the Weezer Coachella set, he released a brief statement to confirm he would still take to the stage and to thank the public for their support before simply adding, “She’s alright”, regarding his wife’s well-being, as she was injured in the arm during the altercation.
