MADRID, December 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday presented two murder charges and will consider the death penalty against Nick Reiner, accused of murdering his parents, actor, producer and director Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer Michele Singer, who were found dead this Sunday in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood.
This was stated by the organization in a press release in which it specified that the charge carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or even the death penalty, on which no decision has yet been made.
In this regard, Los Angeles County Prosecutor Nathan Hochman said in a press conference reported by CNN that he will “take into consideration the opinion and wishes of the family”, even if the death penalty will not take place at the moment, given that California Governor Gavin Newsom established a moratorium on this subject in 2019 by executive order. However, this situation could change after the 2026 elections.
In the document, the prosecutor’s office said the case against Nick Reiner also includes an “allegation of multiple murders based on special circumstances” as well as another “specific allegation of personally using a dangerous and deadly weapon: a knife.”
The double murder allegedly took place “in the early hours of December 14,” the date Nick Reiner “is accused of fatally stabbing” his parents at their home, according to the agency’s account. “Nick Reiner fled, but was arrested a few hours later that night at the Parc des Expositions,” the text states.
After the presentation of the charges, which will take place this afternoon in Los Angeles (early morning in Spain), the accused “will appear in court”, which is in the process of “medical authorization procedure”, indicated the prosecutor. The exact date has not been announced.
“Prosecuting domestic violence cases is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking cases we face because of the intimate and often brutal nature of the crimes,” said Hochman, who called the couple’s murders “shocking and tragic.” “We owe it to his memory to demand justice and responsibility,” he stressed.
The announcement came two days after the bodies of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer were found in their home. The filmmaker, born in 1947 in the Bronx in New York, became famous in the 1970s. He received an Oscar nomination for the production of “A Few Good Men” and directed such well-known films as “The Princess Bride” and “When Harry Met Sally”, on the set of which he met Michele Singer.
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