Rihanna Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Upgraded Charges

A grand jury has indicted Ivanna Ortiz on 14 counts stemming from the March shooting at Rihanna's gated Los Angeles home, and Ortiz pleaded not guilty to all of them at a court appearance Wednesday.

The new indictment, unsealed Wednesday, retains the charge of attempted murder of Rihanna and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper. It upgrades 10 previously filed assault charges, now accusing Ortiz of using an assault weapon. She had previously faced those counts as assault with a semiautomatic firearm.

The indictment was made public one day after a judge found Ortiz, 36, competent to stand trial. Judge set her bail at $2.65 million, and she returned to jail. If convicted as charged, she faces up to life in state prison. She is due back in court Oct. 29 for a pretrial hearing.

According to a police report previously obtained by Rolling Stone, Ortiz opened fire on the property last March 8 while Rihanna, her partner A$AP Rocky, their three children and her mother were home. Shots pierced the home's nursery and the windshield of an Airstream trailer parked in the driveway.

Rihanna was inside the Airstream with A$AP Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, when she heard "approximately ten loud sounds like something banging on metal," the report said. She opened the curtains and "observed bullet holes in the windshield directly in front of where she had been standing."

Rihanna "grabbed Rakim out of bed, told him they were being shot at, and pushed both of them to the ground," the report said. The couple then ran into the garage and secured their children and staff.

Asked after the hearing whether prosecutors had considered attempted murder charges involving Mayers or other family members, Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said Ortiz had one intended target.

"This is a person who wanted to kill Rihanna, and everyone else was collateral damage," Bott said. He added that prosecutors upgraded the firearms charges after an expert examined the weapon recovered in the case.

Witnesses reported seeing a white Tesla Model 3 with a paper license plate fleeing the scene, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. A police helicopter located the vehicle, leading to Ortiz's arrest.

Investigators found six bullet holes in the vehicle gate at Rihanna's home and a seventh in a pedestrian gate, the documents said. Inside the property, police found three bullet holes in a wooden fence obscured by tall hedges.

Before the shooting, Ortiz posted erratically on social media, addressing and tagging Rihanna directly. "Listen, Rihanna. When you die, God is taking me to my future. You want to kill me. Shut the fuck up," she said in a YouTube video titled "Praying Woman's Journal, Day 39," posted on Jan. 4, 2026.

Ortiz worked as a licensed speech pathologist in California before the alleged attack. In a filing obtained by Rolling Stone, an executive officer with the state's Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology asked the court to bar Ortiz from practicing while the criminal case is pending, through sentencing and any appeal. A different judge granted the request.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman addressed the case Wednesday. "Every person deserves to feel safe in and around their home," Hochman said. "Shooting at an occupied home is a serious, violent crime that is both reckless and dangerous. It is pure luck and not a matter of restraint that no one was killed or injured."

The Oct. 29 pretrial hearing will set the course for a case that carries a potential life sentence.