‘God is taking me to my future’: How the Rihanna shooting suspect’s life unraveled
(CNN) — Ivanna Ortiz loved taking her daughter to the movies. She was religious, preferring Christian musicians to secular ones, and she sang in the church choir. She worked as a speech pathologist and ran her own clinic. “Everywhere she went, she always put a smile on your face,” said Jennifer Oxendine, who was friends with Ortiz in the late 2000s when they attended the same church. “She always just made you feel like a sense that everything’s going to be okay.” Now, Ortiz, 36, stands accused of attempting the unthinkable. In March, police say, Ortiz drove to the Los Angeles home of Rihanna, while the star and her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, were in an Airstream trailer parked in the driveway. She grabbed a loaded AR-15 rifle and fired at least ten shots at the front gate, according to the police report obtained before it was sealed to the public.
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That September, Ortiz was injured when the Mercedes Benz she was driving struck a tree and crashed into the porch of a home in St. In the six months since her arrest, Ortiz has been in custody in Los Angeles undergoing mental health evaluations to determine if she’s competent to stand trial on charges of attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic weapon and shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper. In January, Ortiz sent an email to her ex-husband demanding he “renounce” the singer and “confess that I’m better than her,” court records show. “You gotta let me know so that door can be closed,” Ortiz wrote, according to a copy of the email.
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(CNN) — Ivanna Ortiz loved taking her daughter to the movies. She was religious, preferring Christian musicians to secular ones, and she sang in the church choir. She worked as a speech pathologist and ran her own clinic. “Everywhere she went, she always put a smile on your face,” said Jennifer Oxendine, who was friends with Ortiz in the late 2000s when they attended the same church. “She always just made you feel like a sense that everything’s going to be okay.” Now, Ortiz, 36, stands accused of attempting the unthinkable. In March, police say, Ortiz drove to the Los Angeles home of Rihanna, while the star and her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, were in an Airstream trailer parked in the driveway. She grabbed a loaded AR-15 rifle and fired at least ten shots at the front gate, according to the police report obtained before it was sealed to the public.
