Case of shooting at Rihanna's home clouded by concerns over accused woman's mental health - BERITAJA

The Florida female who allegedly raked Rihanna’s West L.A. location pinch firearm fire earlier this twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium mentally unfit to guidelines trial, her lawyer said successful tribunal Wednesday.

Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman “expressed a doubt” that his client, 35-year-old reside pathologist Ivanna Ortiz, was competent to guidelines proceedings connected charges of attempted execution and battle pinch a deadly weapon aft she allegedly opened occurrence connected the singer’s Bevelry Crest spot connected March 8.

But aft a little closed-door hearing, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Shannon Cooley did not find location was important grounds of Ortiz’s intelligence “incompetence” and ordered criminal proceedings to continue.

A spokeswoman for the nationalist defender’s agency declined to remark extracurricular the courtroom, noting Cooley had sealed immoderate chat of Ortiz’s intelligence health. Dillman did not connection specifics about his concerns during the portions of the proceeding unfastened to the public.

Prosecutors opportunity the shots fired by Ortiz struck Rihanna’s home, a neighbor’s residence and an Airstream parked connected the grounds. No 1 was hit, but Rihanna and her hubby — hip-hop and character ASAP Rocky — were wrong the Airstream astatine the clip it was shot.

Ortiz has pleaded not guilty.

Earlier connected Wednesday, Ortiz sought to person Dillman fired arsenic her lawyer during a closed-door proceeding earlier Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Shannon Cooley, who presumably blocked that effort arsenic Dillman was still representing Ortiz precocious Wednesday morning.

Ortiz continued to bicker pinch Dillman later successful the time erstwhile he tried to schedule a early proceeding successful the lawsuit for July, demanding he “do it sooner.”

After Dillman expressed interest about his client’s intelligence health, Cooley cleared the courtroom truthful she could mobility the lawyer for grounds of Ortiz’s purported intelligence illness. Typically, erstwhile a defense lawyer raises questions about their client’s intelligence fitness, judges mention specified cases to the intelligence wellness tribunal successful Hollywood. L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Alexander Bott, who is prosecuting the case, said he had ne'er seen thing for illustration what happened connected Wednesday.

On the time of the shooting, Rihanna said Rocky was sleeping erstwhile she “suddenly heard about 10 large sounds for illustration thing banging connected metal,” according to a police study made nationalist successful a tribunal filing successful precocious March.

When the shooting stopped, she grabbed Rocky “out of bed, told him they were being changeable astatine and pushed some of them to the ground,” according to the constabulary report. The mates past ran to their location to cheque connected their children, the constabulary study said.

Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman addresses the tribunal during the arraignment for Ivanna Ortiz astatine the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center connected April 8, 2026.

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Ortiz had made a number of disparaging posts about Rihanna connected societal media successful the weeks starring up to the shooting.

When constabulary arrested her successful Sherman Oaks an hr aft the shooting, Ortiz was carrying a achromatic Springfield Armory firearm and 2 30-round firearm magazines, according to the constabulary report. She legally owned the firearm, according to tribunal records.

While Ortiz declined to reply circumstantial questions from constabulary aft her arrest, she did make a little connection to investigators.

“Can I opportunity 1 sentence?” she asked, according to the report. “I would for illustration to opportunity that I wasn’t attempting murder. But that’s each I wanted to say.”