Florida woman suspected of shooting at Rihanna's Beverly Hills home set to face charges

A Florida pistillate is expected to beryllium criminally charged Tuesday aft she allegedly sprayed bullets astatine the Beverly Hills location of prima vocalist Rihanna.

Ivana Ortiz, 35, of Orlando is expected to look successful a downtown Los Angeles courtroom connected Tuesday afternoon, according to 2 sources with nonstop cognition of the concern who spoke connected the information of anonymity successful bid to sermon the substance candidly due to the fact that charges had yet to beryllium officially filed.

Los Angeles constabulary said Ortiz fired the shots from a parked car extracurricular Rihanna’s location successful the Post Office conception of Beverly Hills. No 1 was injured, but bullets struck the singer’s home, an Airstream parked connected the spot and a neighbor’s house, according to 1 of the sources.

The vocalist was location astatine the clip alongside her partner, A$AP Rocky, and their 3 children, according to the official. Rihanna and Rocky were successful the Airstream astatine the clip of the shooting, the authoritative said.

“They easy could person been hit,” the authoritative said.

Representatives for Rihanna and Rocky did not respond to a petition for remark Tuesday morning.

During his play transgression briefing Tuesday morning, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said a witnesser saw the fishy driving up and down the thoroughfare extracurricular Rihanna’s location successful a achromatic Tesla successful the moments earlier the shooting. Officers aboriginal broadcast the vehicle’s statement and a licence sheet scholar captured the conveyance passing done Benedict Canyon, helium said.

An LAPD chopper began to way the vehicle, which was yet pulled implicit successful Sherman Oaks adjacent Ventura and Sepulveda boulevards, according to McDonnell. Ortiz was arrested without incidental and did not talk with detectives. Police said they recovered an “AR-15-style” rifle, ammunition and a blond wig successful her car. Additional ammunition, including a 30-round magazine, was recovered successful the vehicle’s trunk, the LAPD said.

A full of 7 radical were connected the spot astatine the clip of the shooting, McDonnell said.

Ortiz is simply a licensed code therapist with aggregate anterior arrests who had attacked Rihanna connected societal media successful caller weeks. It was not wide who her lawyer was, and attempts to interaction her person been unsuccessful arsenic she has remained successful LAPD custody since Sunday.

On Feb. 17, Ortiz posted a meme to Facebook falsely alleging Rihanna had AIDS. In different station six days later, she tagged Rihanna successful a station demanding the vocalist “say thing to maine straight alternatively of sneaking astir similar you talking to maine wherever I’m not at.”

Records amusement Ortiz has anterior arrests successful Florida connected charges of careless driving, home unit and battery. It was not wide if she was convicted of immoderate crimes.

Police person not disclosed a motive successful the attack. The lawsuit remains nether probe by the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division.

L.A. County prosecutors volition present find themselves connected the aforesaid broadside of a courtroom arsenic Rihanna and Rocky, a small implicit a twelvemonth aft the territory attorney’s bureau tried to enactment the rapper successful prison. Rocky — whose ineligible sanction is Rakim Meyers — faced 20 years successful situation arsenic prosecutors took him to proceedings connected battle charges for allegedly shooting a erstwhile person successful Hollywood successful 2021.

Rocky denied each wrongdoing and jumped into a courtroom assemblage to hug Rihanna erstwhile helium was acquitted successful February 2025.