Best selling author in shooting incident with cops

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A best-selling author was shot by police and accused of attempted murder after authorities said she pointed a gun at officers who were searching for hit-and-run suspects in a residential Los Angeles neighborhood.

Authorities shot Jillian Lauren Shriner, 51, Tuesday afternoon after repeatedly telling her to drop the handgun, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. Shriner is also the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.

Shriner fled into her home and was later taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the department said. She was booked while hospitalized.

In a Wednesday night news conference, Detective Meghan Aguilar said that it was not clear from body-worn police video what happened in the moments before the shooting, or whether she fired at officers.

"At that point there were some commands given, multiple commands to drop the gun, drop the weapon, unfortunately it did result in an officer-involved shooting," she said.

Aguilar said that police body-worn police camera had not provided "a clear view of what she did with that firearm" or said it was "not clear if she fired at officers or not."

Police are set to review multiple videos and seek access to any surveillance camera footage from the area.

Shriner is a journalist and author of several books, including “Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”

The department said officers encountered Shriner in the backyard of her home in Eagle Rock, north of downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday afternoon after the California Highway Patrol requested help finding three hit-and-run suspects allegedly involved in a crash on a nearby freeway.

The suspects fled their vehicle and ran into the residential neighborhood, the department said.

When officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were directed to the backyard of a home where one of the suspects was seen, they saw Shriner — armed with a handgun — in the backyard of a neighboring home, the department said.

After Shriner was shot and hospitalized, authorities found a 9 mm handgun in her home, the department said.