LOS ANGELES — Rob Reiner’s son Nick was infamous for being violent, and people round him “immediately knew’’ he was the one who allegedly murdered his dad and mom, associates and neighbors advised The Put up on Monday.
“This isn’t the primary time their son has been violent,’’ a longtime neighbor of the victims mentioned of Nick Reiner, 32, who’s charged with fatally slitting the throats of his dad and mom within the household’s Los Angeles mansion.
“I do know of one other incident a couple of years again with Nick, however I gained’t say greater than that,’’ added the person, who declined to offer his identify. “I simply by no means thought it might ever get thus far.
“Rob was all the time heartbroken that his son couldn’t beat his dependancy,’’ the resident mentioned of the famed actor-director and the long-drug-addled suspect.
“I do know they wished him to get assist, go to rehab, however he wished to get assist whereas at residence — he didn’t need to get remedy at a facility,’’ the neighbor mentioned.
“And I do know they’ve argued about that for years. Nick has had demons for the longest.
“It’s such a nightmare,’’ the supply mentioned. “The entire thing is a tragedy.’’
A former classmate of Nick’s advised The Put up that the suspect — who had been out and in of rehab since age 15 — has “all the time been troubled’’ and that she “immediately knew it was him’’ when she heard the information.
A second neighbor of the dad and mom added, “I wasn’t stunned’’ to study Nick was charged with killing his famed Hollywood actor, 78, and director dad and spouse Michele, 68. The resident declined to elaborate.
A safety guard employed by the neighborhood to patrol the household’s ritzy Brentwood hood due to looting after the Palisades Hearth in January advised The Put up that Nick had been dwelling along with his dad and mom for no less than the previous 12 months.
“You could possibly inform one thing was somewhat off with him,’’ the employee, Trevor Taufahema, mentioned of the suspected killer son.
“He’s an odd particular person, you already know?
“You possibly can inform he had, like, some issues with drug dependancy,’’ Taufahema mentioned.
“I feel he was homeless a couple of occasions, however I do know he lived on this home,’’ the person added.
The guard mentioned Nick particularly had one good friend he would invite to his dad and mom’ multimillion-dollar residence.
“I might meet him proper right here,’’ Taufahema mentioned close to the residence.
“I’m unsure who he was, however I’d all the time see [Nick] sneak off with him. I don’t know what they had been doing.”
Nonetheless, the guard mentioned, “I by no means noticed any violence with [Nick].
“If Nick is the suspect, I might by no means have thought that he would have finished this to his dad and mom.
“Nice folks, nice folks,’’ the employee mentioned of Rob and his spouse.
“I might see them every day each day.”
“Each time they see me in my automotive outdoors, they all the time ask if I used to be OK, if I wanted something, meals.”
“On a wet day, the spouse gave me an umbrella as a result of I didn’t have my umbrella. … And I nonetheless have it to at the present time.’’
He mentioned that when he heard the information of the murders, “I used to be simply in shock.”
“I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I do know these folks.’ They’re the sweetest folks on this planet.’’
The primary neighbor additionally referred to as Rob and Michele Reiner “the kindest, most loving and beneficiant folks you’ll ever meet.”
“It is extremely very devastating their lives ended this manner. Rob was a pricey good friend. And Michele, I can not think about,’’ the person mentioned. “And their different children, horrible, they need to endure this.”
