Nick Reiner was identified with schizophrenia a number of years in the past and was receiving remedy for the situation earlier than the killings of his mother and father, based on three sources with direct information of the case.
The sources stated his medicine was modified or adjusted in some unspecified time in the future previous to the deaths, although it isn’t clear how quickly earlier than the incident the change occurred.
A sealed medical order was signed on Friday by the choose overseeing the early phases of the case. The order is believed to narrate to Reiner’s psychological well being situation and remedy, although the sources declined to debate its contents. Reiner, 32, has been charged with two counts of homicide within the deaths of his mother and father, filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70.
The sources stated Reiner was being handled for a severe psychiatric dysfunction on the time of the killings.
As of Friday, investigators had not recovered the weapon used within the slayings, based on two of the sources. They stated the absence of the weapon was of restricted investigative worth given different proof, together with findings on the crime scene, gadgets recovered throughout Reiner’s arrest and his alleged statements to police.
The Los Angeles Police Division stated the couple have been discovered lifeless in the master suite of their Brentwood dwelling on the west aspect of town. The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated they have been fatally stabbed within the early morning hours on Sunday. The county health worker dominated the reason for loss of life to be a number of sharp pressure accidents.
Reiner was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday in College Park close to the College of Southern California, about 15 miles from his mother and father’ dwelling. He’s being held with out bail on the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles, based on inmate data.
He appeared in courtroom on Wednesday carrying a blue vest. His arraignment has been postponed twice, along with his subsequent look scheduled for January 7.
