Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele died of “a number of sharp pressure accidents,” the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace reported Wednesday. This comes after authorities had beforehand confirmed that the couple have been fatally stabbed.
Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, have been discovered useless Sunday afternoon at their house within the upscale L.A. neighborhood of Brentwood, police mentioned.
Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman introduced Tuesday that their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, is being charged with two counts of first-degree homicide with particular circumstances of their slayings. The costs embrace “a particular allegation that he personally used a harmful and lethal weapon, a knife,” based on the DA’s workplace.
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Investigators consider Nick Reiner fatally stabbed his dad and mom early Sunday morning earlier than fleeing, prosecutors mentioned.
The our bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner have been discovered at about 3:40 p.m. Sunday, police mentioned, and Nick was discovered and arrested within the Exposition Park neighborhood of South L.A. at roughly 9:15 p.m. Sunday. Authorities have but to supply a attainable motive within the killings or what led them to arrest Nick Reiner.
Two sources who attended a celebration Saturday night time at Conan O’Brien’s the place Rob and Nick Reiner have been additionally current informed CBS Information on Monday {that a} transient however loud argument between the 2 happened.
Nick Reiner’s actions following the murders are below investigation. CBS Information discovered Wednesday that he checked right into a resort in Santa Monica early Sunday morning, which is about 4 miles away from his dad and mom’ Brentwood house. Safety video obtained Tuesday additionally confirmed him inside a fuel station comfort retailer simply earlier than his arrest.
His first court docket listening to was Wednesday, and his arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 7.
Hochman mentioned the costs carry a most sentence of life in jail with out parole or the loss of life penalty, however that his workplace hasn’t determined which to pursue.
Rob and Michele Reiner married in 1989 and had three kids collectively. Their two different kids, Jake and Romy Reiner, launched a press release Wednesday calling the lack of their dad and mom “horrific and devastating.”
“They weren’t simply our dad and mom; they have been our greatest buddies,” the assertion reads.
