Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday introduced homicide costs in opposition to Nick Reiner, days after his dad and mom — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner— have been discovered stabbed inside their Brentwood dwelling.
Los Angeles police responded to the Reiner dwelling within the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue about 3:40 p.m. Sunday after the couple’s daughter discovered her dad and mom, regulation enforcement sources confirmed to The Occasions. Hours later, round 9:15 p.m., authorities caught up with Nick Reiner, 32, in South Los Angeles close to USC and took him into custody, based on one other regulation enforcement supply who was not approved to talk publicly.
Reiner is being held with out bail at Twin Towers Jail and is taken into account a suicide threat and was positioned below particular supervision, a regulation enforcement supply informed The Occasions.
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Reiner was scheduled to look in courtroom on Tuesday morning, based on jail information, however his lawyer Alan Jackson stated he had not been “medically cleared” to be transported from the jail.
“We’ll be again each day,” he informed reporters outdoors Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom. “The bailiff has indicated that the Sheriff’s Division will take it on a day-to-day foundation, so hopefully he will probably be cleared tomorrow.”
Jackson, one of the extremely wanted protection attorneys, has represented a bunch of well-known shoppers, together with Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. Though Jackson and his companion, Mark Werksman, did not win an acquittal for Weinstein at his 2022 rape trial in L.A., he has had main success in different high-profile trials. Earlier this 12 months, Jackson secured an acquittal on second-degree homicide costs for Karen Learn, who was charged with killing her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.
Authorities haven’t offered any particulars a couple of doable motive within the case. However household pals informed The Occasions that Rob and Nick Reiner obtained into an argument at a vacation social gathering at discuss present host Conan O’Brien’s dwelling Saturday night. Many social gathering visitors observed Nick appearing unusual, the chums stated, nevertheless it’s not clear what they have been arguing about.
The youthful Reiner, who struggled with dependancy for years, was dwelling in a guesthouse on his dad and mom’ property and his mom had turn into more and more involved about his psychological well being in latest weeks, a household good friend stated.
It stays unclear when the Reiners have been killed. Michelle Obama revealed that she and Barack Obama deliberate to satisfy with the Reiners that Sunday night.
“We have been imagined to be seeing them that night time,” she informed Jimmy Kimmel on his present Monday. “Rob and Michele Reiner are a number of the most first rate, brave individuals you ever wish to know.”
A supply aware of the investigation stated Nick Reiner was staying on the Pierside Santa Monica resort on Sunday. A resort worker stated he had “no data” when reached by The Occasions on Tuesday. Representatives for the resort haven’t responded to a number of requests for remark.
Actor Billy Crystal, a longtime good friend and collaborator of Rob Reiner, was one of many first individuals relations reached out to after calling 911, based on sources aware of the occasions.
He arrived on the scene Sunday night to consolation relations, based on a household good friend and a regulation enforcement supply. Crystal was described as devastated by the violent flip of occasions and left the house in tears.
The challenges the Reiners confronted with their son have performed out partially within the public highlight. In interviews, Nick Reiner has described biking out and in of rehab and experiencing bouts of homelessness as an adolescent.
By 2015, Nick Reiner had gotten clear, working together with his father on “Being Charlie,” a semi-autobiographical movie a couple of profitable actor with political ambitions and a son hooked on medication. In public, Nick praised his dad and mom for serving to him discover sobriety. However he additionally stated he felt responsible disappointing them and was making an attempt to determine his personal path.
However Nick Reiner has struggled with sustaining his sobriety. In an August 2018 interview on “Dopey,” a podcast about dependancy and restoration, he stated he was smoking pot “as a preventative measure” to cease himself from doing tougher medication, and likewise taking Adderall.
He described wrecking his dad and mom’ guesthouse a couple of 12 months earlier whereas “completely spun out on uppers.”
“I feel it was coke and one thing else — and I used to be up for days on finish, and I began punching out various things in my guesthouse,” together with a TV, he stated.
The incident, he stated, occurred across the time his dad and mom informed him he needed to get out and go to rehab.
Occasions workers author Clara Harter contributed to this report.
