Woman accused of firing at Rihanna’s home charged with attempted murder
Rihanna’s home was fired at by a woman in Florida earlier this year
The Florida woman accused of shooting into Rihanna's Beverly Hills mansion earlier this year, while the singer and her family were inside, has been indicted on multiple charges in connection with the incident.
Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, was charged with attempted murder as well as 10 counts of assault with an assault weapon and three counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office announced the news after unsealing an indictment that was returned on June 18.
“Every person deserves to feel safe in and around their home,” District Attorney Nathan J Hochman said in a statement. “Shooting at an occupied home is a serious, violent crime that is both reckless and dangerous.”
The Orlando, Florida, native entered a plea of not guilty to the charges, with her bail set at $2.65 million. She is due back in court for a hearing October 29.
Ortiz faces a sentence of up to life in prison if convicted on the charges.
Prosecutors said that on the afternoon of March 8, Ortiz allegedly drove up to Rihanna's Southern California home and fired “an assault weapon multiple times at the house.”
At the time of the incident, Rihanna was present on the property with her partner A$AP Rocky and their three children: sons RZA Athelston, four, and Riot Rose, three, and one-year-old daughter Rocki Irish, in addition to “several other people,” prosecutors said.
No people had been hit by the gunfire, with Hochman adding that “it is pure luck and not a matter of restraint that no one was killed or injured.”
In a hearing this past April, prosecutor Alexander Bott said that Ortiz had traveled to the singer's house “with a loaded weapon, ammunition and a wig as a disguise,” adding that the incident “could easily have resulted in multiple homicides…of adults and children.”
