It was purported to be a weekend of celebration for Rob and Michele Reiner.
They attended Conan O’Brien’s Christmas social gathering Saturday and deliberate to fulfill Barack and Michelle Obama on Sunday night time.
But that gathering with the forty fourth president and former first woman by no means occurred.
The Reiners had been discovered lifeless of their Brentwood house Sunday afternoon, and their son Nick was arrested on suspicion of homicide.
More particulars are rising about that fateful weekend, however a full accounting of what transpired has but to be revealed.
Nick Reiner had a lengthy historical past of substance abuse issues and gave quite a few interviews about his makes an attempt at rehab and stints of homelessness. He stated he was in restoration at age 22, when he and his father produced a movie primarily based on his struggles, however at age 24 stated in a podcast interview that he had since relapsed on methamphetamine.
Reiner was residing within the guesthouse on his dad and mom’ property, in response to household buddies. The household had change into more and more involved about his psychological well being and had expressed these considerations in current weeks.
On Saturday night time, Nick and his dad and mom had been on the identical vacation occasion.
That night time, the 32-year-old bought right into a combat together with his dad and mom on the social gathering at O’Brien’s home, the Reiners’ buddies informed The Times. People on the social gathering remarked that Nick was performing surprisingly on the occasion, they stated.
On Sunday night time, regulation enforcement officers examine close to the Reiners’ house.
(Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times)
It stays unclear when the Reiners had been killed. Michelle Obama revealed that she and Barack Obama deliberate to fulfill with Reiners that Sunday night.
“We had been purported 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 folks you ever need to know.”
L.A. Police Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton stated that the preliminary 911 name got here at round 3:40 p.m. Sunday from inside the house, which is within the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue. There had been no indicators of pressured entry, and Nick Reiner was not on the property when officers arrived, in response to regulation enforcement sources not approved to talk publicly about particulars of the case.
The couple had wounds according to being stabbed, the sources stated.
The medical expert is figuring out the time of demise for Rob and Michel Reiner, however investigators are pursuing Nick Reiner’s whereabouts within the hours after the confrontation on the O’Brien social gathering.
The Reiners’ youngest baby, 28-year-old Romy, discovered her dad and mom lifeless inside the house on Sunday afternoon, in response to the household buddies, who didn’t need to be recognized due to the character of the crime.
Nick was not house when the our bodies had been found, sources stated.
Nick Reiner attends the Sept. 9 premiere of “Spinal Tap II” in Los Angeles.
(Michael Buckner/Variety by way of Getty Images)
Actor Billy Crystal, Rob’s longtime good friend and collaborator, was one of many first folks household reached out to after studying of the couple’s demise and visited the home on Sunday.
By that night, the deaths on the Hollywood legend’s house had been getting world consideration.
It stays unclear when police started to give attention to Nick Reiner and the way they had been capable of decide his location.
Officers with the L.A. Police Department’s Gang and Narcotics Division together with a U.S. Marshals job pressure that sometimes searches for fugitives tracked Nick down in South L.A. on Sunday night, in response to a regulation enforcement supply and Reiner’s reserving file.
He was discovered close to USC, round 15 miles from the scene of the stabbing, the supply stated.
Nick Reiner was taken into custody round 9:15 p.m. Sunday and booked on suspicion of homicide at 5:04 a.m. Monday, the supply stated.
He is being held in L.A. County jail with out bail, in response to the LAPD and jail information.
