Michele Singer Reiner (L) and Rob Reiner (2nd L) pose with family, including son Nick (R), at an awards gala in April, 2014. Photo: Michael Loccisano / Getty Images / AFP
Nick Reiner, the son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, is being held on suspicion of murder following their deaths, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department says.
"We have our robbery/homicide division handling the investigation. They worked throughout the night on this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case," said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.
"He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail," McDonnell added.
An LAPD Deputy Chief told reporters at the scene on Sunday night (local time) that investigators were seeking a search warrant for the home.
"I wouldn't be in a position to talk specifically about what the objective was," McDonnell said Monday, "but it's a critical piece of our investigation to be able to ensure, down the road, a prosecution."
McDonnell declined to give more details about the investigation.
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Brentwood home on Sunday night.
Authorities are investigating the deaths as apparent homicides.
Investigators were interviewing a family member Sunday evening (local time) regarding the deaths, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Rob Reiner, 78, co-starred in the 1970s hit CBS television comedy All in the Family and directed several well-known movies, including This is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, Stand by Me and The American President.
GOP lawmakers criticise Trump's post
Two Republican lawmakers criticised President Donald Trump for suggesting the deaths of Hollywood Rob Reiner and his wife Michele stemmed from "Trump derangement syndrome."
"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS," the president wrote on Truth Social.
"He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump," he added.
Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on X: "Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered."
The Kentucky Republican continued: "I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they're afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has become increasingly critical of the president in recent months, also said Trump was out of line.
"This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies," she wrote on X.
What we know about Nick Reiner
Nick Reiner spoke frequently about his struggles with addiction.
Reiner, 32, co-wrote the 2015 film Being Charlie, a movie inspired by his own experiences with drug addiction, including homelessness and stays in rehab. It was directed by his father.
"That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff," Nick Reiner told People magazine in 2016. "I met crazy great people (while homeless), so out of my element. Now, I've been home for a really long time, and I've sort of gotten acclimated back to being in LA and being around my family. But there was a lot of dark years there."
Rob Reiner appeared with Nick on the AOL program Build in 2015 to discuss Being Charlie.
"You don't set out to have a cathartic experience or be therapeutic in some way," the elder Reiner said. "The fact that we were dealing with things that Nick had gone through and how I had related to it and how his mother had related to it … it forced me to have to see more clearly and understand more deeply what Nick had gone through, and I think it forced him to see things that I had experienced during this process."
"I mean, we did get into fights over things, but ultimately it forced us to make the film better," Rob Reiner said. "The whole process for me - I can just speak for myself - it did make me understand him a lot more, and it did make me a better father. Hopefully it did."
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