Nick Reiner was detained without incident by police on Sunday, shortly after his parents’ bodies were found. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a Tuesday press conference that the 32-year-old drug addict was being evaluated and had not yet been medically cleared to appear in court.
“Today, I’m here to announce that our office will be filing charges against Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, actor, director Rob Reiner and photographer, producer Michel Singer Reiner,” Hochman said. “These charges will be two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also faces a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, that being a knife.”
The charges carry the possibility of the death penalty being used against Nick Reiner, and if not that, then life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for the Reiner family and their loved ones but for our entire city,” Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said during the news conference.
Among the sparse details provided by police at the press conference was further information about the circumstances surrounding Reiner’s apprehension on Sunday. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan S. Hamilton said he was arrested “without incident” in a “public area in the Exposition Park area near the University of Southern California campus.”
“There was no indication that he was going to resist or anything like that,” Hamilton said. “He was taken into custody without issue, and he was transported to our police headquarters facility.”
“He is going through medical clearance, something that everybody who gets arrested and gets held in a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department jail goes through,” Hochman said at the press conference. “Once he is medically cleared, he will be brought to court to be arraigned on these charges. At that point, he will enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.”
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Nick Reiner is currently considered a suicide risk, sources told the Los Angeles Times.
His attorney, Alan Jackson, has previously represented other Hollywood heavyweights, including Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
