Weezer bassist Scott Shriners wife couldnt see police when they shot her as she defended home from possible intruder, witness says
LOS ANGELES — The wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner who was shot by cops then charged with attempted murder was merely trying to protect her kids from an intruder in her own yard, according to her neighbor who said she witnessed the shooting.The neighbor claimed Los Angeles Police Department officers failed to announce themselves and she couldn’t see them when they opened fire — and cops now more concerned with covering their tracks than catching the real bad guys.The shocking story saw best-selling author Jillian Shriner, 51, wounded in the shoulder by officers Wednesday as they chased fugitives from a freeway crash through her $2.7 million property.“It’s not like she didn’t have any reason to have a gun.The guy was there,” said the neighbor who watched a stranger in a “wife beater” hop a fence into Jillian’s yard.“None of us knew anything.
She’s home with her two kids,” the neighbor told The Post, adding that she didn’t notice Jillian was armed but thought she was well within her rights to be.When “rock-wife” Jillian saw the intruder, “she basically admonished him and said ‘They’re gonna catch you,'” according to the witness, who did not want to be named.Before either of them knew it, a brigade of cops came creeping up the yard with guns drawn and the bullets were flying.“I hear about six gunshots in quick succession,” the neighbor said.
“It went ba-da-da-da-da… There was just them firing upon her.”The LAPD did not respond to a request for comment.The 5-bed, 4-bath home sits back off the road, with a gated entrance to a long driveway.It is surrounded by vegetation — presumably where the fugitive and cops crossed onto the property.After being wounded, Jillian retreated into her house.
She later came out with her arms raised — alongside her kids’ babysitter, and later even a young boy — and both were forced to lay spread-eagled on the pavement and as heavily-armed cops cuffed them.Cops said they recover...