Leaked Chilling Footage Shows Nick Reiner Walking Near His Parents’ House Hours Before Their Murders as Eyewitnesses Claim He Looked ‘Tweaked Out’
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What happened to Rob and Michele Reiner has shaken Hollywood. It’s not their murders, but the way it all transpired. The couple was at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party with their son Nick, and then, hours later, they were dead, and Nick was being arrested. He has now been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Now, new surveillance footage from a local business on the Santa Monica Pier shows Nick Reiner walking toward the Pierside Santa Monica on Sunday around 4:10 a.m. The video, obtained by TMZ, shows him walking calmly as he headed to a hotel, where he checked in using his credit card. Hours before, he was seen walking past a gas station in Brentwood, going in the opposite direction from his parents’ home.
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When he checked into the hotel, eyewitnesses said Nick seemed “tweaked out” but that there were no visible signs that he had been in any altercation of any sort, so he was just given a room. However, when housekeeping came to his room on Sunday morning, the shower was “full of blood,” and there was also blood on the bed and the window.
Later that night, he was seen at a gas station across the street from Exposition Park, near Downtown LA. He walked around before buying a drink. He then exited and was arrested not that long after, on the corner of Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. At the moment, he is being held without bail.
He made his first court appearance on Wednesday, December 17. He looked straight ahead the whole time, while shackled at both hands and feet and wearing an anti-suicide smock. He only spoke to tell the judge, “Yes, your honor,” confirming that he wanted to waive his right to a fast arraignment.
After the hearing, his lawyer announced that his client would be arraigned on Jan. 7.
This comes after recent reports from the Daily Mail. that Reiner told someone at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party the night before his death that he was worried about his son. “I’m petrified of [Nick]. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son. I think my own son can hurt me,” one celebrity recalled Rob Reiner saying, according to a source who was at the funeral service.
TMZ reported that Nick and his parents were in a “very loud argument” at Conan O’Brien’s house, where the three attended the party together. Sources said that “Michele had been anguishing to friends over the last few months that she and Rob were at their wits’ end over Nick’s mental illness and alleged substance abuse issues, and did not know what to do with their son Nick, saying, ‘We’ve tried everything.’”
Romy and Jake Reiner, Nick’s siblings, released a statement on Wednesday, December 17, that said: “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience.” The statement also added, “They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
“We are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and support we have received not only from family and friends but people from all walks of life,” it went on to say. “We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
