A Florida woman alleged to have opened fire on Rihanna's Los Angeles home with an AR-15-style rifle was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, prosecutors said.
Ivanna Ortiz, 35, was also charged with 10 counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Special allegations that can be used in sentencing were also tacked on to each count. They included personal discharge of a firearm and use of a firearm.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the charges are connected to 10 victims: Rihanna, partner A$AP Rocky, their three children, their three household staff members and two people at home at a neighboring residence also targeted in the attack, Hochman said.
No injuries were reported.
Ortiz's arraignment was scheduled for later this month at a court hearing Tuesday, Hochman said. Her bail was set at $1.875 million, and she faces life in prison if she is convicted, he said.
A motive was still under investigation, Hochman said.
The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office said in a statement that it has been appointed to represent Ortiz but that it cannot comment because the matter is being weighed in court.
"As in every case, we will work to ensure that our client receives the full protections guaranteed under the Constitution," the office said.
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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were in an Airstream camping trailer on the property at the time, he said. It counted as one of three inhabited dwellings targeted in the shooting, Hochman said.
"When an individual comes into our community and decides to shoot it up, that individual will be arrested and held fully accountable for her actions," Hochman said Tuesday at a news conference outside the county courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.
The shooting Sunday afternoon outside the home in the Beverly Crest community of Los Angeles was carried out with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, Los Angeles police said.
Neighbors reported seeing a woman possibly wearing a wig driving a white Tesla up and down the street that leads to Rihanna's residence before they heard gunfire, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Tuesday morning at a meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners.
He said the gate in front of Rihanna's property, the Airstream trailer and the neighbor's home all displayed evidence of having been struck by gunfire.
Automatic license plate recognition helped lead police to Ortiz, whom officers found over the hill in Sherman Oaks behind the wheel of a white Tesla, McDonnell said. She was taken into custody peacefully during a traffic stop, police have said.
Inside the vehicle were an AR-15-style rifle, spent casings and a blond wig, McDonnell said. In the trunk were additional ammunition and a 30-round magazine, he said.
"The suspect invoked a right to counsel and made no statements," he said.
State records in Florida saya woman of the same nameis a licensed speech-language pathologist in good standing.
Her divorce included a 2023 incident of violence, according to an arrest affidavit. She was alleged to have texted her ex-husband "You'll be socked on the nose tonight" when he dropped off their children at Ortiz's apartment, according to the affidavit, and cellphone video of the confrontation was alleged to show Ortiz calling the man a homophobic slur.