A bird’s-eye view from the three-car crash in Los Angeles — that led to a wild manhunt where police shot the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — shows officers arresting a suspect in his boxers after he stripped down to evade capture.
The chaos unfolded on Tuesday at around 3 p.m. when the California Highway Patrol responded to a multi-vehicle hit-and-run going eastbound on Ventura Freeway, KTLA reported.
Three male suspects were reported to have fled from the crash on foot — launching a massive manhunt involving the CHP and Los Angeles Police Department.
KTLA’s helicopter, Sky5, captured the moment officers were arresting one of the suspects, donning only his underwear.
The suspect had allegedly stripped down to his boxers while fleeing the scene of the hit-and-run and tried blending into the neighborhood of Eagle Rock in downtown LA by jumping into a pool of a home and watering plants, according to the outlet.
A brother and sister, Alana Altmeyer and Guy Binn, witnesses to the crash, saw the suspects trying to flee the scene, and they both started chasing after them.
“I saw a gentleman walking on the shoulder,” Altmeyer told KTLA. “So, my brother and I went over and assumed that he was leaving the scene of an accident.”
When the suspects caught wind that the siblings were trying to stop them from leaving the scene, they took off running.
During the escape, one of the men tripped and fell while trying to cross the busy California freeway.
Altmeyer said the man appeared injured and was “bleeding from his head, his mouth and his knees” but got up and continued to flee across and eventually ran down an embankment on the opposite side of the freeway, KTLA reported.
However, Binn was still hot on the suspect’s trail.
“I chased him down the side of the freeway, across the freeway, over a couple of fences,” Binn told KTLA.
“He had a bag and a sweater. I got his bag. I got his sweater and me being so old, I couldn’t keep up with the guy. I chased him to the park, and I lost him.”
The suspect was the same man who stripped down to his boxers and was nabbed by CHP officers about an hour and a half after the hit-and-run. Two of the other suspects remain at large, KTLA reported.
But the chaos didn’t end there.
The massive police presence in the neighborhood to find the other suspects led officers to Eagle Vista Drive, where a woman — now identified as the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, Jillian — was armed with a handgun outside her residence.
Officers yelled for Jillian, 51, to drop the gun “numerous times” — but she refused.
She then allegedly pointed the handgun at the officers, and they opened fire, hitting her in the shoulder, TMZ reported.
Jillian then retreated into her residence with the gunshot wound but eventually came outside with another female, identified as the family’s babysitter, and surrendered.
KTLA’s chopper caught the moment both women were ordered to come down the driveway of the home with their hands raised and get face down on the pavement of the street. Cops in tactical gear were seen placing both women in cuffs.
After the two were in custody, a young boy came out of the home with his hands up.
The self-described rock-wife was transported to a local hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics, where she was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police also disclosed they recovered a 9-millimeter handgun from her home.
Jillian has since been booked for attempted murder, according to TMZ.
Both Jillian and the babysitter have since been released from police custody.
As for the hit-and-run, KTLA reported that a woman suffered moderate injuries in the crash and was transported to the hospital. No officers were hurt in either incident.
