Rest peacefully Rob
 

This is too much... I dont care about the politics of the victims anymore...
When are we going to start warehousing the mentally ill again?

https://youtu.be/7S8EHEEaVRg?si=DvlYZACrERSrnRnv

Heard a preliminary report that a family member was in custody.

Son, Nick.

A tragedy when a child is drawn into drugs, and they chose a life of drugs. It does show the insidiousness of drug addiction, at every financial level is a real issue.

I worked with him a few times. He was a nice guy but we definitely didn't align politically (but that never entered into our working relationship).

Very talented director, whenever a trailer was advertised as "A Rob Reiner Film" you knew your money would be well spent at the box office.

Just tragic. I've seen some family photos posted and the son in question never seems to be smiling in any of them. Money and fame definitely do not guarantee a happy family life.

He first entered rehab at age 15. Been in and out his whole life. Been homeless, many times, all over the country. Recently returned home to get his **** together and it looks like he failed, big time.

Truly unimaginable...

You'd think someone as powerful as rob could have had him permanently committed.

It's not easy. We don't have a very good healthcare system when it comes to resources for those afflicted with mental illness and drug problems.

Merged. No need for two.

I'm not sure that you can have someone that's not a dependent (adult child) committed.
Parents would have a hard time doing that.
Was he mentally ill or an addict (seems a fine line, but I think it's valid)?
So which addicts get committed? Presumably, this one hadn't previously committed murder. When do you know that an addict is going to go from "harmless addict" to "violent/murderous addict"?

I loved his acting in All in the Family and enjoyed some of his movies.

RIP.

D..

If the son did it then he's the real meathead .

The kid has been arrested this morning.

Charged with Murder.

$4M bail.

Their youngest son, I believe?

Not in California

Yes.

We agree. It's an incredibly tragic situation for a lot of people who knew them or worked with them, there is not much you can glean from it besides that, IMO. And these types of family situations affect people of all different political POVs...everyone should know that by now. :(

It’s ****ed up when a kid kills his elderly parents.

They probably got him rehab, counseling, supported him financially, until it was not feasible,etc. to no avail.

rip

I accept that the creative, talented people who brought joy to my life will all die as I watch, but I don’t want them to die like this. I’m so sorry, Mr. Reiner.

The emerging back story is that the parents did everything reasonably possible to help son Nicky out of his addiction and chronic despair but nothing worked. Major effort to reach this kid but never got there.

I am reminded of correspondence between Karl Marx, during his raging addiction period and his father, a well respected attorney in Prussia. At one point his father suggested that Karl was likely possessed by demons. Evil exists and sometimes you cannot fix it.

A tragic story with a violent ending.