Law enforcement had rushed to the Eagle Rock neighborhood of L.A., just north of downtown, looking for three people who had jumped out of a car involved in a hit-and-run on the nearby Ventura Freeway.

Police scouring the neighborhood came upon an armed Jillian Shriner in her yard and she didn’t immediately comply with officers’ orders to drop her weapon, authorities said.

The musician’s wife, who played no role in the hit-and-run incident, was then shot in the shoulder before she was taken to hospital and booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

It still wasn’t clear on Thursday if she’d hired or been assigned a criminal defense attorney.

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