Lana Rae Meisner, the wife of former Eagles bassist and co-founder Randy Meisner, died on March 6 after she was shot in the head.
A source told Radar Online that Los Angeles police officers were first called to their home in Studio City for a domestic violence incident. They later left, but were called again. The 69-year-old musician told police then that his wife, 63, was looking in a closet where there were guns.
“She was looking for something in the hall closet, and Randy told cops one of the guns was falling and in the process, Lana Rae caught it and it ended up blowing her head apart,” the source told Radar.
A law enforcement source told the site that Randy “seemed to be in shock and wasn’t even able to acknowledge that Lana Rae was dead from a gun shot wound.”
Police did confirm to the New York Post’s Page Six that police were called to the Meisners’ home and that a suspect was arrested. However, they did not identify the suspect.
Meisner, who left the Eagles in 1977, has faced struggles in recent years. In January 2015, his friend, James Newton, took temporary conservatorship of him. As the New York Daily News reported at the time, Newton’s attorney said that Meisner was diagnosed as bipolar and once “threatened to gun everyone down with an AK-47.”