Lana Rae Meisner Wife Of Eagles Co-Founder Shot Dead

Lana Rae Meisner wife of Eagles co-founder has been shot dead at the couple's Los Angeles home amid reports of domestic abuse. Lana Rae Meisner was shot in the head and died on Sunday night at the Studio City home she shared with bassist husband Randy, 69, police said. The pair had been married for 20 years.

It is been reported that around an hour and a half before Randy called police to report his wife had been killed, Lana called 911 herself to report domestic abuse. Law enforcement sources said that Lana reported Randy for waving a BB gun around and acting erratically at approximately 5.30pm on Sunday. Police said they attended the couple's $1million home after getting reports of a possibly intoxicated male and took a domestic violence report before leaving. Then, at 6.59pm, Randy called officers to report that his wife had accidentally shot herself while looking for something in a closet.

Randy told police that Lana had gone into another room before he heard a gunshot after which he went in and found her dead, it is reported. He told officers that Lana was stumbling around looking for something in a closet where the couple kept two guns, before one of them fell, according to Randy, Lana attempted to catch the weapon and in the process shot herself. 

On Monday around 4:45am it was reported that Randy was taken to hospital after acting in an altered state. Police sources said “Randy seemed to be in shock and wasn’t even able to acknowledge that Lana Rae was dead from a gunshot wound”. A spokesman for the said “After a thorough investigation by Valley Bureau detective personnel and the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, it was determined that Mrs. Meisner’s death was accidental. Mrs. Meisner was moving a rifle that was stored inside a case in a closet. As she lifted the rifle in the case, another item within the case shifted and hit the trigger of the rifle causing it to fire and fatally injure Mrs. Meisner”.

Randy, who left the Eagles in 1977, had reportedly been suffering from bipolar disorder and had threatened to shoot people in the past. Lana is Randy's second wife, who he married in November of 1996. They do not have children together.