Rob Reiner, wife found dead at Los Angeles home; stabbing suspected — what we know

Actor and manager Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were recovered dormant successful their Brentwood location connected Sunday afternoon.According to TMZ, the mates was stabbed successful their Los Angeles home. The Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Homicide Division is inactive investigating the incident.

Authorities person not released further details regarding a motive oregon however the deaths occurred.Officers were called to the location Sunday afternoon, wherever they discovered a antheral and pistillate with stab wounds, according to cops and sources. LA Fire Department paramedics were called to the location connected Chadbourne Avenue astir 3.30 pm.The Los Angeles Fire Department told NBC Los Angeles that a 78-year-old antheral and a 68-year-old pistillate were recovered dormant wrong the home.Within a fewer minutes, LAPD officers were dispatched to the location for a study of an "ambulance decease investigation," which is LAPD terminology erstwhile officers are called by firefighters to the find of a death."On December 14th, astatine astir 1540 hours, LAPD Officers assigned to West LA Division responded to a decease probe successful the 200 artifact of South Chadbourne Avenue. Once wrong the residence, officers discovered 2 decedents.

The individuality of the decedents has not yet been confirmed. Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) responded to the residence, which has been identified arsenic the location of Rob Reiner," said LAPD successful a connection earlier the individuality of the mates was confirmed.

Who was Rob Reiner?

Rob Reiner, the lad of drama fable Carl Reiner, carved retired an influential vocation arsenic an actor, director, writer and shaper crossed 5 decades, according to the Variety. He archetypal became a household sanction arsenic Michael “Meathead” Stivic connected All successful the Family, earning 2 Emmy Awards for his show connected the groundbreaking sitcom. Transitioning down the camera, Reiner made his directorial debut with the improvisational cult classical This Is Spinal Tap (1984), successful which helium besides appeared. He followed it with an bonzer tally of critically acclaimed and commercially palmy films, including Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery and A Few Good Men, showcasing uncommon versatility crossed genres.

In 1987, helium co-founded Castle Rock Entertainment, producing galore hits. Though his aboriginal films were little commercially successful, Reiner continued making profoundly idiosyncratic and governmental projects. A vocal progressive activist, helium remained committed to storytelling implicit profit. His astir caller enactment was Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.Reiner and his woman are survived by children, Jake, Nick and Romy. He was the adoptive begetter of histrion Tracy Reiner, the girl of his archetypal wife, the precocious histrion and manager Penny Marshall.