Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, who was admitted into a mental-health diversion program earlier this year after allegedly firing a weapon at police conducting a search near her Eagle Rock home, has filed for divorce from her rock-star husband.
Jillian Lauren Shriner, 52, filed court papers Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking a dissolution of her marriage from Scott Shriner. The couple were married in 2005 and they have two adopted teenage children.
She cited “irreconcilable difference” in her divorce petition.
In September, a judge allowed Jillian Shriner to enter a two-year mental health diversion program that could result in the dismissal of two felony charges stemming from an alleged exchange of gunfire with police who were searching for a trio of hit-and-run suspects in Eagle Rock.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Susan J. De Witt ordered Shriner to comply with a number of conditions, including abstaining from illicit drugs and alcohol, continuing to participate in weekly therapy sessions, undergoing random drug and alcohol testing, attending at least three Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week and not owning or possessing any guns or knives.
She is due back at the downtown Los Angeles courthouse Jan. 9 for a progress report hearing.
Shriner was charged in May with one count each of willful discharge of a firearm in a grossly negligent manner and assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
Shriner was originally booked on suspicion of attempted murder after she was shot April 8 by Los Angeles Police Department officers during the search being conducted in her neighborhood in the 5300 block of Waldo Place. Officers were searching for three hit-and-run suspects allegedly involved in an earlier crash on the nearby Ventura (134) Freeway.
Shriner was not a target of the search, but officers in the neighborhood spotted her with a handgun in the yard of her home, according to the LAPD.
“The officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun numerous times, however, she refused,” according to an LAPD statement. “Shriner then pointed the handgun at the officers” prompting at least one to open fire. Authorities later said Shriner actually fired the weapon, but no officers were injured.
Shriner “was struck by gunfire and fled into her residence,” police said. “She later exited and was taken into custody.”
She was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury to an arm, then later booked into jail. She was later freed on $1 million bail.
According to the LAPD, a 9mm handgun was recovered from her home.
Shriner has written multiple books, most recently an examination of serial killer Samuel Little titled, “Behold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”