A 35-year-old woman from Florida is facing the possibility life in prison in connection with a shooting earlier this week outside popstar Rihanna’s Beverly Crest mansion, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the singer’s home in 9500 block of Heather Road around 1:15 p.m. Sunday after receiving reports of shots fired.
On Tuesday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told officials that a witness spotted the suspect, Ivanna Ortiz, a resident of Orlando, behind the wheel of a white Tesla just before the gunfire erupted.
Once officers broadcast a description of the vehicle and a license plate reader in Benedict Canyon captured the Tesla’s movements, a LAPD helicopter began tracking Ortiz, who was pulled over and arrested near Ventura and Sepulveda boulevards in Sherman Oaks, McDonnell added.
Investigators said the 35-year-old had an AR-style rifle, a blonde wig, additional ammunition and a 30-round capacity magazine in the vehicle.
Seven people were on the sprawling Beverly Crest property at the time of the shooting, including Rihanna, her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky and the couple’s three children, the Los Angeles Times reported.
No one was injured during the ordeal, but gunfire struck the home, as well as an Airstream trailer that Rihanna and Rocky were in at the time. A neighbor’s home was also hit by bullets.
A licensed speech therapist, Ortiz has prior arrests in Florida for careless driving, domestic violence and battery, The Times reported.
Ivanna Ortiz, 35, a resident of Orlando, seen in mugshots from prior arrests by sheriff’s departments in Volusia and Orange counties in Florida.
A Facebook page reportedly tied to Ortiz by the NY Post and TMZ, shows a Feb. 23 post where she addresses the “Umbrella” singer.
“@badgalriri Are you there?” she wrote, tagging the singer and entrepreneur’s Instagram account. “Cause [sic] I was waiting for your AIDS 5-head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you talking to me where I’m not at.”
That caption accompanied a selfie of Ortiz sporting blonde hair and red lipstick.
Days later, she posted a video addressing rapper Cardi B as she talked to herself in the mirror.
“You can’t be f–k with me Cardi B, you’re supposedly busy right now. But you know who has the cutest outfit tonight? You know who’s the cutest tonight? I am,” she said. “I’m the cutest tonight. You ain’t doing nothing to me. You ain’t messing with me.”
The post was from Feb. 27, which was when Cardi B was in San Francisco for her Little Miss Drama Tour. It’s unclear if Ortiz attended that performance.
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Investigators outside of pop superstar Rihanna’s L.A. home after reports of a woman shooting toward the house on March 8, 2026. (KTLA)
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Rihanna arrives at the premiere of “Smurfs” on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
At a Tuesday news conference, L.A. County DA Nathan Hochman decried the violence.
“Opening fire in any populated neighborhood is extremely dangerous, puts lives at risk and will be fully prosecuted,” he said. “Thankfully, no one was injured in this shooting, but this careless violence will not be tolerated in our community. Such shooters will find their next destination to be our jails and prisons.”
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Ortiz has been charged with one count of attempted murder, 10 felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.
She remains in custody on $1.8 million bail and is scheduled to appear in court again on March 25.
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