Nick Reiner<\/a>\u00a0was arrested in connection with the tragic discovery of his parents’ bodies at the home in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area. The charges include a special circumstances allegation of multiple murders and an additional allegation that Reiner used a knife.<\/p>\nSpecial circumstances elevate a murder charge to a more severe level. The charges carry the potential for a possible death sentence, if prosecutors pursue capital punishment. That decision will be made later, Hochman said. <\/p>\n
The 32-year-old is set to appear in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Nick Reiner was the second of the couple’s three children.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The deaths of Rob Reiner, a celebrated director whose long list of successful films included “When Harry Met Sally\u2026,” “A Few Good Men” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” and Michele Reiner, a talent photographer and producer, stunned the Hollywood community and led to an outpouring of tributes from entertainment industry colleagues, political figures and more. The family\u2019s challenges Nick were well-documented, including battles with drug addiction.<\/p>\n
Nick Reiner has spoken publicly over the years about his struggles with drug addiction, which began in his teens. He told\u00a0People in an interview<\/a>\u00a0in 2016 that he cycled in and out of treatment facilities with bouts of homelessness and relapses in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Reiner, who is being held at the twin towers jail in downtown Los Angeles, is no longer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1035,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-496921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-and-courts","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115849211623488854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}