Case Of Shooting At Rihanna's Home Clouded By Concerns Over Accused Woman's Mental Health

The Florida female who allegedly raked Rihanna’s West L.A. location pinch firearm fire earlier this twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium mentally unfit to guidelines trial, her lawyer said successful tribunal Wednesday.

Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman “expressed a doubt” that his client, 35-year-old reside pathologist Ivanna Ortiz, was competent to guidelines proceedings connected charges of attempted execution and battle pinch a deadly weapon aft she allegedly opened occurrence connected nan singer’s Bevelry Crest spot connected March 8.

But aft a little closed-door hearing, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Shannon Cooley did not find location was important grounds of Ortiz’s intelligence “incompetence” and ordered criminal proceedings to continue.

A spokeswoman for nan nationalist defender’s agency declined to remark extracurricular nan courtroom, noting Cooley had sealed immoderate chat of Ortiz’s intelligence health. Dillman did not connection specifics astir his concerns during nan portions of nan proceeding unfastened to nan public.

Prosecutors opportunity nan shots fired by Ortiz struck Rihanna’s home, a neighbor’s residence and an Airstream parked connected nan grounds. No 1 was hit, but Rihanna and her hubby — hip-hop and character ASAP Rocky — were wrong nan Airstream astatine nan clip it was shot.

Ortiz has pleaded not guilty.

Earlier connected Wednesday, Ortiz sought to person Dillman fired arsenic her lawyer during a closed-door proceeding earlier Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Shannon Cooley, who presumably blocked that effort arsenic Dillman was still representing Ortiz precocious Wednesday morning.

Ortiz continued to bicker pinch Dillman later successful nan time erstwhile he tried to schedule a early proceeding successful nan lawsuit for July, demanding he “do it sooner.”

After Dillman expressed interest astir his client’s intelligence health, Cooley cleared nan courtroom truthful she could mobility nan lawyer for grounds of Ortiz’s purported intelligence illness. Typically, erstwhile a defense lawyer raises questions astir their client’s intelligence fitness, judges mention specified cases to nan intelligence wellness tribunal successful Hollywood. L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Alexander Bott, who is prosecuting nan case, said he had ne'er seen thing for illustration what happened connected Wednesday.

On nan time of nan shooting, Rihanna said Rocky was sleeping erstwhile she “suddenly heard astir 10 large sounds for illustration thing banging connected metal,” according to a police study made nationalist successful a tribunal filing successful precocious March.

When nan shooting stopped, she grabbed Rocky “out of bed, told him they were being changeable astatine and pushed some of them to nan ground,” according to nan constabulary report. The mates past ran to their location to cheque connected their children, nan constabulary study said.

Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman addresses nan tribunal during nan arraignment for Ivanna Ortiz astatine nan Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center connected April 8, 2026.

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Ortiz had made a number of disparaging posts astir Rihanna connected societal media successful nan weeks starring up to nan shooting.

When constabulary arrested her successful Sherman Oaks an hr aft nan shooting, Ortiz was carrying a achromatic Springfield Armory firearm and 2 30-round firearm magazines, according to nan constabulary report. She legally owned nan firearm, according to tribunal records.

While Ortiz declined to reply circumstantial questions from constabulary aft her arrest, she did make a little connection to investigators.

“Can I opportunity 1 sentence?” she asked, according to nan report. “I would for illustration to opportunity that I wasn’t attempting murder. But that’s each I wanted to say.”