LOS ANGELES — Nepo-baby junkie Nick Reiner checked into a stylish seashore resort with an indoor hearth pit and sweeping views of bougie Santa Monica allegedly after slitting the throats of fogeys Rob and Michele Reiner.
The privileged accused-killer son of the legendary Hollywood director was in sufficient of a way of thinking to seek out his technique to the Pierside Resort, simply steps from the tony California city’s iconic pier, within the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 14 — someday after law-enforcement sources say he’s believed to have killed his dad and mom of their Los Angeles mansion roughly 5 miles away.
Nick, 32, would have strolled previous the resort foyer’s quaint Christmas tree, upscale restaurant and comfy fire-pit sitting space that includes wicker chairs to get to the check-in desk to lease a $300-a-night room on the primely situated lodging between the pier and a light-rail station — which has a line main on to the situation the place he was arrested later that evening.
He couldn’t have picked a extra public place to hunker down for awhile — though at the moment of morning and within the usually teeming space, he wouldn’t have registered on anybody’s radar.
However he was jittery, showing “tweaked out,” when he arrived, witnesses advised TMZ — and thus doubtless oblivious to the resort’s options, together with its foyer with floor-to-ceiling home windows providing a semi-panoramic view of the native space.
The accused assassin’s second-floor room would have additionally afforded him his personal personal gorgeous view of the ritzy seaside enclave — though sooner or later, he hanged mattress sheets over all of the home windows, blocking the sight, authorities have mentioned.
Regulation enforcement later blocked off a bit of the hallway the place Nick’s room was situated because the investigation continues, a employees member advised The Submit.
After Nick left the resort someday that day, by no means formally testing, cleaners discovered the bathe and mattress in his room lined in blood. However witnesses famous that Nick had no seen blood on him when he walked in, in keeping with TMZ.
The deeply disturbed son is accused of killing his icon father, 78, and photographer mom, 70, someday between an embarrassingly public blow-up the three had at Conan O’Brien’s vacation get together Saturday evening and when his sister Romy discovered their dad and mom’ physique on the household’s mansion in Brentwood on Sunday afternoon.
Regulation-enforcement sources have mentioned they imagine Nick killed Rob and Michelle between leaving the get together and arriving on the resort.
He and his dad and mom might have been arguing over Nick’s weird conduct with get together visitors together with “SNL” alum Invoice Hader and the determined want for him to return into rehab.
Safety-camera footage then confirmed him leaving his dad and mom’ home simply earlier than midnight, and he was noticed once more a short while later calming shopping for a drink at a close-by fuel station.
4 hours later, Nick was checking into the Pierside — a 10-minute drive and roughly a roughly 90-minute stroll.
His actions then all through the day Sunday are unclear, however round 9 p.m., Nick turned up at one other fuel station close to Exposition Park about 15 miles throughout city.
Officers arrested him on the street in entrance of the fuel station, video footage reveals.
He was positioned on suicide watch after his bust, law-enforcement sources have advised TMZ, and failed to seem for his scheduled Dec. 16 arraignment as a result of he hadn’t been “medically cleared,” his lawyer mentioned.
