Gunshots heard on video as Los Angeles officers confronted and shot author, wife of Weezer bassist

Newly released police video shows a bestselling author and wife of Weezer’s bassist armed with a handgun as she was confronted by Los Angeles Police Department officers searching her Eagle Rock neighborhood for a trio of hit-and-run suspects earlier this month.

“Put the gun down! Hey, put the gun down,” officers are heard saying in the bodycam video as they looked over a backyard fence and saw Jillian Lauren Shriner.

“Lay the gun down,” officers yelled repeatedly.

“Ma’am, put the gun down,” another officer shouted. “Ma’am, we’re trying to help you!”

Officers repeatedly identified themselves as police and told Shriner she could be shot if she does not put the gun down.

One officer is heard in the video saying, “She just pointed it, not at us, but she just lifted it up.”

Seconds later, another officer says, “Oh she racked it.” Gunfire followed immediately.

The LAPD says two officers fired and wounded Shriner in the shoulder. No officers were injured.

At least eight gunshots could be heard in the recording.

Shriner’s manager did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Shriner, 51, was treated at a hospital for a graze wound to the shoulder and booked on suspicion of the attempted murder of a police officer.

Jail records show she posted a $1 million bond and is due in court April 30.

As of Friday, no criminal charges had been filed by prosecutors, who are still reviewing the evidence.

Security video from the Shriner home, obtained by the LAPD and included in the department’s edited video presentation of the incident, showed Shriner emerging from her home with a black pistol in her right hand.