Rihanna had to shove her husband A$AP Rocky to the floor after shots were fired at her home in March, bombshell new court documents reveal.
On March 8, the pop icon’s mansion in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of LA was struck nearly 10 times while the singer and the rapper were inside an Airstream trailer parked in the driveway.
Their three children — RZA, Riot and Rocky, ages 4, 3 and 1, respectively — were inside the home with Rihanna’s mother, the New York Times reported.
“They’re shooting at us,” Rihanna allegedly told her husband as he slept inside the trailer when authorities say Ivanna Lisette Ortiz opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Investigators later found the property’s front gate riddled with bullet holes, as well as the wooden fence.
The musician and her husband reportedly told investigators they could see bullet holes in the windshield of their trailer.
According to prosecutors, the shooting happened around 1:20 p.m. on March 8 in the 9500 block of Heather Road.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz of Orlando, Florida, has been charged with one count of attempted murder, 10 felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.
Bail was set at $1.875 million. If convicted as charged, Ortiz faces up to life in state prison. The accused woman has a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
“Opening fire in any populated neighborhood is extremely dangerous, puts lives at risk and will be fully prosecuted,” District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement.
“Thankfully, no one was injured in this shooting, but this careless violence will not be tolerated in our community.”
Authorities said Ortiz fled the scene but was arrested a short time later in the Sherman Oaks area.
Ortiz’s public defender declined to comment, though Ortiz briefly addressed the allegations in court with just one sentence.
“I would like to say that I wasn’t attempting murder. But that’s all I wanted to say,” she said. Rihanna, her husband, household staff and others at the property were interviewed by investigators.
The nine-time Grammy winner reportedly told police she had dealt with stalkers and online death threats in the past, but said there had been no clear warning signs leading up to the shooting.
She also recounted running from the trailer into the house to alert everyone inside about the gunfire. According to the report, bullets struck multiple areas of the property, including the exterior wall of a nursery.
A chef working at the home reportedly told police she noticed a woman parked outside the residence earlier that day in a Tesla vehicle. The chef said the woman appeared to smirk at her “as if she was about to do something naughty.”
Moments later, the chef said she heard several loud popping noises and looked up to see the Tesla speeding away while smoke drifted from one of the windows.
Social media posts allegedly tied to Ortiz that portrayed an apparent obsession with Rihanna and included bizarre accusations against the singer.
In one video, the woman claimed Rihanna was “trying to steal from me” and accused the singer of using “witchcraft.”