It was speculated to be a weekend of celebration for Rob and Michele Reiner.
They attended Conan O’Brien’s Christmas celebration Saturday and deliberate to satisfy Barack and Michelle Obama Sunday evening.
However that gathering with the primary woman and forty fourth president by no means occurred.
The couple have been discovered lifeless of their Brentwood residence Sunday afternoon, and their son Nick Reiner was arrested on suspicion of homicide.
Extra particulars are rising about that fateful weekend, however a full accounting of what transpired has but to be revealed.
Nick Reiner had an extended historical past of substance abuse issues and gave quite a few interviews about his makes an attempt at rehab and stints of homelessness. He mentioned he was in restoration at age 22, when he and his father produced a movie primarily based on his struggles, however at age 24 mentioned 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 associates. The household had change into more and more involved about his psychological well being and had expressed these issues in latest weeks.
On Saturday evening, Nick and his dad and mom have been on the similar vacation occasion.
That evening, the 32-year-old obtained right into a battle together with his dad and mom on the celebration at O’Brien’s home, the Reiners’ associates informed The Instances. Folks on the celebration remarked that Nick was appearing unusually on the occasion, they mentioned.
On Sunday evening, regulation enforcement officers examine close to the Reiners’ residence.
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It stays unclear when the Reiners have been killed. Michelle Obama revealed that she and Barack Obama deliberate to satisfy with Reiners that Sunday night.
“We have been speculated to be seeing them that evening,” she informed Jimmy Kimmel on his present Monday. “Rob and Michele Reiner are a number of the most first rate, brave individuals you ever need to know.”
L.A. Police Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton mentioned 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 have 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 in line with being stabbed, the sources mentioned.
The health worker is figuring out the time of dying for Rob and Michel Reiner, however investigators are pursuing Nick Reiner’s whereabouts within the hours after the confrontation on the O’Brien celebration.
The Reiners’ youngest youngster, 28-year-old Romy, discovered her dad and mom lifeless inside the house on Sunday afternoon, in response to the household associates, who didn’t need to be recognized due to the character of the crime.
Nick was not residence when the our bodies have been found, sources mentioned.
Nick Reiner attends the Sept. 9 premiere of “Spinal Faucet II” in Los Angeles.
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Actor Billy Crystal, Rob’s longtime pal and collaborator, was one of many first individuals household reached out to after studying of the couple’s dying and visited the home on Sunday.
By that night, the deaths on the Hollywood legend’s residence have been getting international consideration.
It stays unclear when police started to deal with Nick Reiner and the way they have been capable of decide his location.
Officers with the L.A. Police Division’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 document.
He was discovered close to USC, round 15 miles from the scene of the stabbing, the supply mentioned.
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 mentioned.
He’s being held in L.A. County jail with out bail, in response to the LAPD and jail data.
