UPDATE March 10: Authorities identified 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz as the female suspect accused of firing gunshots into Rihanna’s home on Sunday. Ortiz was booked for attempted murder, with bail set at $10,225,000. She remains in custody.
UPDATE March 10: Authorities identified 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz as the female suspect accused of firing gunshots into Rihanna’s home on Sunday. Ortiz was booked for attempted murder, with bail set at $10,225,000. She remains in custody.
Weeks before the shooting, on February 23, Ortiz allegedly posted a strange Facebook message about Rihanna, writing … “@badgalriri Are you there? Cause I was waiting for your AIDS 5-head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you talking to me where I’m not at.”
Investigators are reviewing social media accounts believed to belong to Ortiz. Some posts reference religion and contain statements about celebrities, including Rihanna.
In one post, a person using Ortiz’s name wrote: “Listen Rihanna, when you die, God is taking me to my future.” No motive has been immediately discovered.
A woman in her 30s has been arrested after allegedly firing multiple shots from a vehicle at Rihanna’s Beverly Hills, California home on Sunday, March 8. Rihanna was home at the time of the incident. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to Police Sgt. Jonathan de Vera, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Investigators arrived on the scene around 1:21 pm. The LAPD radio dispatch for the incident said that “approximately 10 shots” had been fired at the residence from a vehicle across the street from the property’s gate. The vehicle, a white Tesla, then fled south on Coldwater Canyon Drive, per the dispatch audio.
As police searched for the Tesla, they relayed details over the radio: The suspect’s hair was in braids; she wore a cream-colored blouse; her car was dirty on the bottom. Officers soon caught sight of her vehicle and followed it to a shopping center parking lot in Sherman Oaks, where they arrested her around 30 minutes after the 911 call came in, according to radio correspondence reviewed by The LA Times.
She has been with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, since 2020, and they share three children. It is unknown if Rocky and their children were home at the time of the incident.