Nick Reiner, the son of Rob and Michele Reiner, was placed in a mental health conservatorship for one year before the tragedy in which he took the lives of his parents, The New York Times reports. The conservatorship began in 2020 and ended in 2021.
The outlet also detailed that to be placed in a conservatorship, a judge must have determined that a person is “a ‘grave disability,’ meaning he was unable to provide for his basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of a mental health disorder.”
He was placed under an L.P.S. (Lanterman-Petris-Short) conservatorship, which “typically originates from an involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and are initiated by a doctor.”
As for why the conservatorship only lasted one year, the public guardian’s office declined to comment and cited patient confidentiality, according to The New York Times.
Nick Reiner’s Medication Was Changed One Month Before Killing
The New York Times went on to add that according to anonymous sources, Nick struggled in the weeks leading up to his parents’ murders due to a change in medication after having been diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
The medication he was initially taking “was effective,” but it was the side effects that led to the switch.
Nick Reiner Doesn’t Understand Why He’s In Jail
GettyTMZ recently reported that Nick, who is currently being charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and is being held at Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles, “doesn’t understand why he’s in jail.”
Sources described him as “delusional and believes the people who put him behind bars are engaged in a ‘conspiracy’ against him.”
At the Jail, he is being held inside the high-observation mental health unit, where he is alone in a cell at all times, PEOPLE reports.
“The inmates [where he is located] have significant mental health illnesses and need to be kept alone and away from any other people or inmates,” a Los Angeles County sheriff source told the outlet.
He was on suicide watch when he first arrived, but has been taken off and no longer has to wear the suicide-prevention smock.
“He is still being monitored every 15 minutes and is being recorded when he exits his cell to go to court or for evaluations or other necessary requirements,” the sheriff source explained. “He is also evaluated each week by our medical professionals like psychiatrists on staff but he did not see one after court.”
