Nick Reiner, the younger son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, was not medically cleared to appear in court on Tuesday, according his attorney.
“Hopefully he’ll be cleared tomorrow and we can get him here,” the attorney, Alan Jackson, said addressing reporters outside of a Los Angeles courthouse.
Jackson would not specify what medical issue prevented Nick Reiner from being cleared, only saying it was “procedural.”
Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested on Monday and booked on suspicion of murdering his parents. He has not been charged in connection with his parents’ deaths, but is currently being held without bail.
Rob Reiner, 78, a legendary actor and filmmaker, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles-area home on Sunday. The couple’s bodies were found with stab wounds, a source close to the family told NBC News.
The bodies were found in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home, Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Dominic Choi said at the department’s weekly commission meeting on Tuesday. Choi did not give any additional new insights into their deaths.
Nick Reiner, 32, has a long history of battling addiction, which reportedly began when he was a teenager. In a 2016 interview with People, he told the magazine he was in and out of rehab for addiction treatment that started when he was 15. He also told the magazine he spent weeks sleeping on the streets.
“Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family,” Nick Reiner told People at the time.
The younger Reiner’s struggles with addiction to heroin and other hard drugs inspired the 2016 movie “Being Charlie,” which he co-wrote and his father directed. The movie focuses on a young man who struggles to follow the advice of recovery professionals.
“The program works for some people, but it can’t work for everybody,” Rob Reiner told the Los Angeles Times in 2015. “When Nick would tell us that it wasn’t working for him, we wouldn’t listen. We were desperate and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son.”
On Saturday, Nick Reiner and his parents attended a holiday party hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien, where he was seen being disruptive, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The parents were upset and embarrassed about their son’s behavior at the party and expressed worries about his health, according to another person.
He is alleged to have interrupted a conversation involving comedian Bill Hader. When Hader told the filmmaker’s son that the conversation was private, the source said, Nick Reiner appeared to pause and stare before “storming off.” Hader did not return a request for comment.
News of Rob Reiner’s death has rocked Hollywood.
He became a household name for his role as Michael “Meathead” Stivic in the landmark sitcom “All in the Family” in the 1970s. He later directed some of the most iconic films in modern history, including “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally…” and “A Few Good Men.”
The Hollywood filmmaker’s death has also prompted an outpouring of grief from some of the nation’s most prominent Democrats, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former President Barack Obama and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker. The Reiners were longtime donors to the Democratic Party.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday that she was supposed to see Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday night.
“In a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on, they were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about,” she said. “And they cared about their family, they cared about this country, they cared about fairness and equity.”
