Weezer bassist to play Coachella despite wife’s arrest

Scott Schriner, bassist for the rock band Weezer, will perform at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend despite his wife’s shooting and arrest on attempted murder charges, Rolling Stone reported Thursday.

While responding to a hit-and-run in Eagle Rock Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department says, officers encountered Jillian Lauren Shriner, wife of Scott, pointing a handgun at them from a neighboring residence.

According to an LAPD statement, “the officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun numerous times; however, she refused. Shriner then pointed the handgun at the officers, and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred.”

The statement goes on to say that Jillian fled into her home before surrendering herself into custody, after which she was taken to a hospital for treatment. No one else was harmed, and police determined that Jillian was not involved in the hit-and-run.

Neither Weezer nor the Schriner family has commented on the matter. Weezer has, however, decided to fulfill its obligation to perform at this Coachella. The band also has upcoming festival performances, including at When We Were Young and Glastonbury.

Jillian Lauren Shriner is best known for her two memoirs “Some Girls” and “Everything You Ever Wanted,” both of which have been named New York Times Bestsellers. The former, which chronicles its author’s time as a girlfriend of the Sultan of Brunei, an experience she describes as akin to being part of a “harem.”

In the years since the books’ release, she has written a true crime book on the serial killer Samuel Little, whom she interviewed extensively. Her work attempting to link cold cases to Little is documented in the film “Confronting a Serial Killer.”