The attempted murder case for the woman accused of opening fire on Rihanna’s Beverly Hills mansion took a major turn on Tuesday when a judge ruled that suspect appear in mental health court before proceeding with the criminal trial.
A lawyer for Ivanna Ortiz, 35, “expressed doubt” over her competence after meeting in court chambers.
The judge in the case, Shannon K. Cooley, was presented additional information that persuaded her to move the proceedings to mental health court.
The decision comes after Ortiz was ruled competent to stand trial on attempted murder charges during a bizarre court appearance in Los Angeles last week.
Ortiz’s lawyer had requested last week that she undergo an additional mental-health check before a judge made the ruling that the criminal trial could proceed.
Cooley ultimately ruled there was “not substantial evidence of incompetency” before changing her mind on Tuesday.
She’s due in mental health court in June 2.
Ortiz is accused of shooting up Rihanna and a neighbors home with high powered AK-47 style type rifle on March 8.
Bullets hit the Airstream trailer in the driveway where Rihanna and ASAP Rocky were at the time, according to District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
Rihanna had to shove her husband A$AP Rocky to the floor after shots were fired at her home, court documents reveal.
“They’re shooting at us,” Rihanna allegedly told her husband as he slept inside the trailer when authorities say Ivanna Lisette Ortiz opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Their three children — RZA, Riot and Rocky, ages 4, 3 and 1, respectively — were inside the home with Rihanna’s mother.
The shooting rattled the normally quiet celebrity enclave, an exclusive neighborhood packed with multimillion-dollar estates and tight private security. Rihanna and her family fled the mansion and got on a private jet leaving LA in the aftermath.
