Los Angeles police charged the son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner with murder on Monday after the suspect’s parents were found stabbed in a brutal double killing that shocked movie fans around the world.Nick Reiner, 32, was detained hours after the bodies of the 78-year-old actor-director and his wife, 70-year-old Michele Singer Reiner, were discovered in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, with multiple reports that they had been stabbed to death or had their throats slit.Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell told reporters the younger Reiner was arrested a few hours after the alarm was raised.”He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held,” McDonnell said.Nick Reiner, who has a history of substance abuse stretching back to his teenage years, had argued with his parents at a glitzy Hollywood party on Saturday evening, media reported.Entertainment outlet TMZ said the bodies had been found on Sunday afternoon by the couple’s daughter, who told police another family member had killed them.As tributes poured in from entertainers and politicians, Donald Trump unleashed an extraordinary broadside, suggesting that Reiner brought on his own murder by criticizing the US president.Trump claimed the Reiners had died “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.””He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession,” the Republican leader wrote.Later, he doubled down, telling reporters that Reiner was “very bad for our country.”The comments were blasted by two prominent right-wing Republicans, including Representative Thomas Massie, who called them “inappropriate and disrespectful.”In a twist of fate, Michele Reiner took the portrait photograph that appeared on “The Art of the Deal,” Trump’s ghostwritten memoir that helped forge his reputation as a successful businessman.- A beloved director -Reiner was politically active, an outspoken supporter of progressive causes, and had warned that Trump was mounting an authoritarian takeover.Reiner backed efforts to secure equal gay marriage rights and create California’s First 5 program, which provides child development programs funded by taxes on tobacco products. The son of legendary comedian Carl Reiner — who won 11 Emmy Awards for his television performances and worked with movie greats Mel Brooks and Neil Simon — Reiner started his showbiz career in acting.He won fame as the oafish son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic on groundbreaking 1970s sitcom “All in the Family,” before transitioning to directing. Even while leading behind the camera, he often appeared in cameo roles in his own films.But it was as a director that he struck Hollywood gold.His output included classic films like 1984’s rock music mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap,” fantasy gem “The Princess Bride” from 1987, and the 1992 courtroom drama “A Few Good Men,” as well as seminal coming-of-age movie “Stand By Me.””A Few Good Men,” starring Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.Reiner also directed “When Harry Met Sally,” which included the legendary restaurant scene in which Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in front of Billy Crystal.Reiner cast his own mother as the fellow diner who wryly quips: “I’ll have what she’s having.”Movie heavyweight John Cusack said he was “at a loss for any words that make sense” about the deaths.Horror and thriller writer Stephen King, whose novella “The Body” was the basis for “Stand By Me,” lauded a “wonderful friend.”Kathy Bates, who won an Oscar for her part in Reiner’s “Misery,” said he was “brilliant and kind, a man who made films of every genre to challenge himself as an artist.”Actor-director Ben Stiller paid tribute to “a kind caring person who was really really funny,” and someone who “made some of the most formative movies for my generation.”Democratic politicians also expressed shock.Former president Barack Obama said he and his wife Michelle were “heartbroken.””Beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people,” Obama said on X.California Governor Gavin Newsom said Reiner had “made California a better place.”

A gunman remained at large Monday after a weekend mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded, with US authorities releasing new footage of a masked “person of interest” captured on surveillance cameras.The shooting took place Saturday in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island when a man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing.Authorities initially detained a man in connection with the shooting, but they later released him, saying he was unconnected.Police revealed at a Monday briefing newly acquired security camera footage of another person wanted in connection with the shooting, wearing a dark beanie hat and a mask along with a heavy black coat.The two students killed were Ella Cook, vice president of Brown’s Republican association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, originally from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to become a neurosurgeon.- ‘Complex investigation’ -“We want to see the individual that pulled the trigger on these young kids identified, apprehended and brought the justice,” Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee told the briefing Monday as the perpetrator remained at large.Local police earlier said that officers had “an enhanced presence in Providence neighborhoods” and that they were going door to door requesting surveillance camera footage.”This is a very active investigation, very complex investigation,” Providence chief of police Oscar Perez said at the update.The FBI as well as agents from the US Department of Homeland Security were involved in tracking down the shooter, he added.”We want to make sure…that we identify this individual and bring them to justice,” Perez said.News that a person was being held indicated a breakthrough, with FBI Director Kash Patel announcing that local police had given federal investigations a lead.But authorities had to walk this back, saying late Sunday that there was not enough evidence to connect the person to the shooting.A lockdown and shelter-in-place order went into effect immediately after the shooting, as heavily armed officers flooded the area.Of the nine wounded, one was in critical condition, seven were in stable condition and one had been discharged, Smiley said.”The gun was so big and long that I genuinely thought…Okay, this is the end of the road for me,” Brown University teaching assistant Joseph Oduro told ABC News.Police initially released 10 seconds of footage of the suspect, seen from behind, walking briskly down a deserted street after apparently opening fire inside a first-floor classroom.”This is starting to get very real and very personal,” Smiley said Monday as the manhunt dragged on. “That’s the scary side. The upside is that this is a tight knit community that looks out for one another.”- Latest mass shooting -The attack is the latest incident of mass shooting in the United States, where attempts to restrict access to firearms face political deadlock.There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.During a Christmas event Sunday at the White House, President Donald Trump spoke briefly about the shooting, saying “things can happen” and wishing the injured to “get well fast.”Brown, which has around 11,000 students, issued an emergency alert at 4:22 pm (2122 GMT) on Saturday reporting “an active shooter near Barus and Holley Engineering,” which is home to the engineering and physics departments. Two exams had been scheduled at the time.”Lock doors, silence phones and stay hidden until further notice,” the university said.Law enforcement and first responders swarmed the scene, with local news station WPRI reporting “clothing and blood on the sidewalk.”The deadliest school shooting in US history took place at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, when South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others before taking his own life.