Maria Puente

USA TODAY

Another tragedy in the Eagles family, after the wife of ex-band member Randy Meisner was shot and killed in their North Hollywood home while moving a rifle.

Lana Rae Meisner, 63, "was tragically shot when she moved a firearm that accidentally discharged" on Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a press release Monday.

Her death came after founding Eagle Glenn Frey died in January of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. He was 67.

Appreciation: Glenn Frey led Eagles' easy sound

The police investigation concluded Lana Meisner's death was an accident.

"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," the police report said.

Police said that officers from the North Hollywood area responded around 5:30 p.m. to a call from a woman asking for assistance for a possibly intoxicated male in the 3700 block of Eureka Drive. The officers took a domestic violence incident report and left.

More than an hour later, they were back, responding to a shooting at the same address. When officers arrived they found Lana Meisner suffering from a single gunshot wound. Fire Department rescue workers arrived and pronounced her dead at the scene.

Randy Meisner was described as cooperative throughout the investigation.

Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who quit in 1977, was the bass player for the band, played and co-wrote songs on six of their albums, and was the lead singer on a song he co-wrote, Take It to the Limit, the band's first million-selling single.

He has struggled with drug and alcohol addictions for decades, especially during the Eagles period when he suffered health problems and recoiled at dealing with the consequences of the band's fame.

Last year, a temporary conservator was appointed by the Los Angeles Superior Court to oversee management of Meisner's drug prescriptions and medical state, after he was diagnosed as bipolar and suicidal. Meisner had allegedly threatened to kill himself, his wife and several others with an AK-47.

.