Two Bodies Found at Home Owned by Director Rob Reiner

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

Two people were discovered dead on Sunday inside a Los Angeles home that belongs to the actor and director Rob Reiner, the authorities said.

In a statement provided to The New York Times, Captain Mike Bland of the Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded to a death investigation on the 200 block of South Chadbourne Avenue at around 3:40 p.m. on Sunday.

Once inside the residence, officers discovered the bodies of the two people. Their identities have not yet been confirmed, the police statement read.

The authorities added that officers from the department’s Robbery Homicide Division, an elite investigative unit, went to the home. The statement said the residence, in the Brentwood neighborhood of West Los Angeles, had been identified as the home of Mr. Reiner.

Police officials were conducting an investigation into what the statement described as “an apparent homicide.”

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, Margaret Stewart, said that the department determined that the bodies were of an approximately 78-year-old male and a 68-year-old female.

Public records show Mr. Reiner as 78 years old, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, as 70.

Late Sunday night, Brentwood was quiet and the streets were empty except for the cluster of police cars and news vans at the end of the 200 block of South Chadbourne. The area is filled with expansive and expensive homes featuring imposing gates and tall hedges.

The authorities had both ends of the block cordoned off with yellow police tape.

The occasional sound of a passing car and the tinkle of a water fountain in one yard near Mr. Reiner’s house punctuated the quiet as helicopters roved overhead.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Rachel Parsons contributed reporting from Los Angeles.

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