Florida woman pleads not guilty to shooting at Rihanna's home

A Florida pistillate pleaded not blameworthy Wednesday to charges that she sprayed bullets astatine Rihanna’s West L.A. earlier this period portion the popular prima was location with her hubby and children.

Ivana Ortiz, 35, was charged with attempted execution and 9 counts of battle pursuing the March 8 incident. Police accidental Ortiz raked Rihanna’s Beverly Crest spot with an battle rifle, striking an Airstream trailer connected the property, the singer’s location and a neighbor’s home.

No 1 was hit, but a instrumentality enforcement root antecedently told The Times that Rihanna and her husband, hip-hop prima ASAP Rocky, were successful the Airstream astatine the clip and “easily could person been hit.”

Prosecutors said the couple’s 3 children, Rihanna’s mother, 2 unit members and 2 of the singer’s neighbors were each location astatine the clip arsenic good and listed arsenic victims successful the complaint.

During a little tribunal proceeding successful downtown L.A., Ortiz appeared successful a yellowish jailhouse jumper with her blonde hairsbreadth tied back. She entered a not blameworthy plea done her attorney, L.A. County Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman.

Dillman asked the tribunal to little her bail to $70,000 owed to fiscal constraints. But L.A. County Superior Court Judge Teresa McGonigle denied that petition aft L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Alex Bott argued Ortiz is simply a menace to nationalist safety, saying she allegedly plotted the onslaught successful beforehand and fired disconnected astir 20 rounds successful Rihanna’s neighborhood.

“This is the benignant of behaviour that could person easy resulted successful aggregate homicides,” Bott said.

Ortiz remains jailed successful lieu of $1.8 million. If convicted arsenic charged, she faces beingness successful authorities prison.

Ortiz was arrested without incidental little than an hr aft the shooting by Los Angeles constabulary officers successful Sherman Oaks. Bott said successful tribunal that Ortiz was arrested portion successful possession of the rifle, other ammunition and a wig she utilized arsenic a disguise.

The L.A. County nationalist defender’s bureau has not commented connected the allegations.

Police person not disclosed a motive successful the attack. Ortiz, a licensed code therapist from Orlando, had made a fig of aggravated societal media posts astir Rihanna successful the weeks earlier the shooting. Ortiz falsely claimed the vocalist had AIDS and demanded Rihanna “say thing to maine straight alternatively of sneaking astir similar you talking to maine wherever I’m not at,” according to the posts.

Rihanna and Rocky person not spoken publically astir the incident.