Ortiz charged with tried homicide and different critical crimes for taking pictures at Rihanna’s residence
Ortiz claims Rihanna ‘stole’ from her and is a ‘witch’ with a ‘satan’s face’
Rihanna and her household had been inside the house throughout the taking pictures, narrowly avoiding damage
A Florida lady is going through critical fees after prosecutors say she opened hearth exterior of Rihanna’s residence earlier this week.
Ivanna Ortiz, 35, from Orlando, was charged Tuesday with one depend of tried homicide, 9 counts of assault with a firearm, two counts of taking pictures into an inhabited dwelling and one depend of taking pictures at a motorcar, per The Los Angeles Occasions.
Ortiz appeared briefly in courtroom in downtown Los Angeles within the late afternoon of March 10, sporting a blue jumpsuit along with her hair styled in two blonde braids. She didn’t enter a plea throughout the listening to; Her arraignment is about for March 26.
Authorities say Ortiz is being held on $1.8 million bail. A choose additionally ordered her to avoid Rihanna and the singer’s longtime accomplice, A$AP Rocky.
“I need everybody to know, on this county, that you need to completely really feel secure in your residence and in your neighborhood and in your group. That security is one thing that we are going to work extremely exhausting to guard,” Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman stated exterior the courthouse, per The Occasions. “When a person comes into our group and decides to shoot it up, that particular person will likely be arrested and held totally accountable for her actions.”
In keeping with Los Angeles police, Ortiz allegedly fired a number of pictures from a parked automotive exterior Rihanna’s residence within the Beverly Crest neighborhood early Sunday afternoon.
Nobody was damage, however investigators say bullets struck the singer’s residence, an Airstream trailer parked on the property and a neighboring home. A legislation enforcement official with direct data of the case shared the main points on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to talk publicly.
Hochman stated Rihanna was residence on the time, together with Rocky and their three kids. Rihanna’s mom, two employees members, and two individuals who dwell within the neighboring home that was hit had been additionally listed as victims within the legal grievance.
Hochman added that Rihanna and Rocky had been contained in the Airstream when the gunfire occurred. A legislation enforcement official instructed the outlet on Tuesday that the 2 artists “simply may have been hit.”
If Ortiz is convicted as charged, she may face life in state jail.
As BOSSIP beforehand reported, a number of alarming movies on Ortiz’s social media seem to supply a weird motive for the assault. In a sequence of movies, she claims the Fenty founder was “stealing” from her, was “jealous” of her, and was a “witch” with a “satan’s face.”
In a single YouTube add, she says: “Received Rihanna over there all jealous…as a result of how am I…how am I…as a result of her face is the satan. Rihanna’s face is the satan.”
She continued in one other video: “Despite the fact that the satan and Rihanna are actually loud, God and Jesus Christ are doing one thing…and myself. As a result of the satan, he doesn’t need it to be me, he doesn’t need me to be a Christian lady of God, as a result of that’s what it’s, I’m detached to Rihanna, I’m detached to loads of your ladies satan.”
“I don’t like her and she or he’s at all times attempting to steal from me,” she continued. “And she or he has not ever put out any music to succeed in folks. She solely put out her little music so she may do witchcraft…And in order that she will steal from folks. So all people please cease…don’t hearken to her, don’t observe her…as a result of she’s stealing from you.”
