Woman charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at Rihanna's L.A. home

The pistillate accused of shooting astatine the Beverly Hills location of superstar Rihanna was charged with 14 felonies, including attempted murder, during her archetypal tribunal quality connected Tuesday.

Outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman besides announced that prosecutors charged 35-year-old Ivanna Ortiz with 10 counts of battle with a semi-automatic firearm and 3 counts of shooting astatine an inhabited dwelling oregon camper. 

Hochman said the gunfire struck Rihanna's home, a camper connected the spot and different adjacent home. He said that Rihanna and her partner, ASAP Rocky, were wrong the camper erstwhile the shooting started. 

If convicted arsenic charged, Ortiz faces a maximum condemnation of beingness successful authorities prison, according to Hochman.   

A motive for the shooting remains nether investigation.   

"The information for Ms. Ortiz is nether afloat investigation," Hochman said. "Law enforcement volition beryllium looking astatine immoderate videos connected societal media, immoderate further grounds that they tin uncover to some recognize the information and wherefore she did these peculiar acts."

In her archetypal tribunal quality connected Tuesday, Ortiz's arraignment was postponed to March 25, and her bail was amended to $1.875 million.

LAPD officers were called to the Beverly Crest vicinity location astir 1:15 p.m. connected Sunday aft receiving reports of a shooting, the LAPD said.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell Tuesday provided caller details regarding the investigation, revealing that 10 radical were wrong the location erstwhile aggregate gunshots were fired.  

McDonnell added that officers judge Ortiz drove from Florida to L.A., but it is unclear however agelong she was successful the area. They allege she parked her car extracurricular the location and fired 7 gunshots earlier speeding away. 

The main said a witnesser provided constabulary with a statement of the fishy vehicle, and with the assistance of automated licence sheet readers and an LAPD helicopter, officers were capable to find the suspect. Her conveyance was recovered astir 8 miles distant from Rihanna's home, astatine the Sherman Oaks Galleria buying center. Ortiz was taken into custody without incident, McDonnell said.

The LAPD recovered the limb utilized during the shooting. They besides said that 7 "assault firearm casings" were recovered astatine the home.

Through its investigation, the LAPD recovered a bid of unusual posts connected Ortiz's societal media mentioning Rihanna. In 1 station connected X, she mentioned the vocalist and said, "Are you there? ... accidental thing to maine straight alternatively of sneaking astir similar you talking to maine wherever I'm not at." 

And successful videos connected what appeared to beryllium her YouTube account, Ortiz ranted astir the singer, and was besides fixated connected different celebrities. 

According to tribunal records, Ortiz was antecedently arrested for home unit successful 2023. She besides precocious sought an injunction to artifact a Billie Eilish performance successful Florida.

CBS LA has reached retired to an lawyer that Ortiz said represents her successful a YouTube video and her family, but has not received immoderate responses.

With the Academy Awards amusement connected Sunday, Hochman assured celebrities that they should not beryllium disquieted astir their safety. 

"Opening occurrence successful immoderate populated vicinity is highly dangerous, puts lives astatine hazard and volition beryllium afloat prosecuted," Hochman said. "Thankfully, nary 1 was injured successful this shooting, but this careless unit volition not beryllium tolerated successful our community. Such shooters volition find their adjacent destination to beryllium our jails and prisons."

Rihanna, whose existent sanction is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, roseate to fame successful the aboriginal 2000s with mega-hits similar "Pon de Replay" and "Umbrella." Since then, she has built her philharmonic vocation into a concern empire nether her Fenty brand. She has her ain cosmetics, manner and lingerie lines. She has been with her partner, rapper ASAP Rocky, since 2020, and they stock 2 sons and a daughter.