5 days after Rob and Michele Singer Reiner had been discovered useless of their Brentwood dwelling, a fundamental timeline is rising concerning the killings and the arrest, hours later, of their son Nick.
Reiner, 32, was charged with two counts of homicide on Tuesday. He appeared in court docket Wednesday, when a choose postponed his arraignment till January.
Authorities have revealed few particulars concerning the killings and why they centered on Nick Reiner as a suspect.
What we all know
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Time of the slayings: Prosecutors allege Nick Reiner fatally stabbed his 78-year-old father and 70-year-old mom someday within the early-morning hours of Sunday. No exact time has been launched. The killings occurred a number of hours after Rob and Nick received into some sort of argument at a Hollywood Christmas celebration, a number of household associates instructed The Instances. The main points of the argument are unclear — and a few associates mentioned an excessive amount of emphasis had been positioned on the incident. The our bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner had been present in the master suite of their dwelling round 3:40 p.m. Sunday, authorities have mentioned.
- Discovery: A therapeutic massage therapist arrived on the couple’s dwelling Sunday afternoon for a weekly appointment with the couple. When nobody responded to her on the gate of the Brentwood dwelling, the therapist referred to as the Reiners’ daughter, 27-year-old Romy, who lives close by. She found the ugly scene and had a pal name 911, based on a supply who was not licensed to talk publicly concerning the investigation. Romy and her brother Jake issued a press release Wednesday saying the “horrific and devastating lack of our mother and father … is one thing that nobody ought to ever expertise. They weren’t simply our mother and father; they had been our greatest associates.” They requested “for hypothesis to be tempered with compassion and humanity.”
- Explanation for dying: The Los Angeles County health worker’s workplace confirmed the Reiners’ deaths had been the results of murder, itemizing the trigger as “a number of sharp pressure accidents” in its public database on Wednesday.
What we don’t know
- Why Nick Reiner? Authorities haven’t mentioned what made them give attention to him as a suspect. Reiner, who lived in his mother and father’ guesthouse, checked into the Pierside Santa Monica resort on Sunday after the killings, based on a regulation enforcement supply who spoke concerning the case on the situation of anonymity. He was arrested Sunday night time close to USC. It’s unclear how police tracked him to the resort or to the South Los Angeles location the place he was arrested.
- Motive: Authorities haven’t theorized a few motive, however that isn’t uncommon this early in a case. Nick Reiner had struggled with drug habit however was additionally described as being near his household.
What’s subsequent
- Nick Reiner will proceed to be held in Los Angeles County jail with out bail.
- He’s anticipated to be arraigned on Jan. 7. His lawyer, Alan Jackson, mentioned Wednesday: “There are very, very complicated, critical points related to this case.”
