After finding the slain couple, investigators focused on their younger son, Nick, as a suspect. He was formally charged with murder on Tuesday and appeared in court on Wednesday.

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A person close to the family provided a detailed account of what occurred in the Reiner house after a massage therapist received no response at the gate.

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The Los Angeles Police Department said it is investigating the deaths as “an apparent homicide.”

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While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.

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