Stunning new video captures the tense moment when police apprehended Nick Reiner, accused of the heinous murders of his famous parents, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.

Exclusive footage acquired by the Daily Mail reveals the dramatic scene as police vehicles, lights flashing, converged on a bustling intersection in downtown Los Angeles. This location is approximately 15 miles from the Reiner family’s luxurious $13.5 million residence in Brentwood.

The surveillance video from a nearby gas station shows Nick slowly walking down the street before raising his arms in surrender as officers encircled him.

Now 32, Nick faces formal charges of two counts of first-degree murder. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, with prosecutors indicating that the death penalty remains a possibility.

According to the LAPD, diligent investigative work led to Nick’s swift capture, with arrest records indicating he was detained roughly six hours after the initial 911 call on Sunday afternoon.

He was taken into custody ‘without issue’, with no indication he was going to resist or flee, before being moved to a police station for questioning. 

A witness earlier told the Daily Mail how they saw five unmarked police cars surround Nick, who appeared to remain calm as armed homicide officers and US Marshals approached and slammed him to the ground.

‘He didn’t see them coming,’ bystander Kevin Cheatham, 34, told the Daily Mail, adding that Nick appeared to remain ‘cool’ and calm.

The moment cops snared Nick Reiner at a busy LA intersection

Rob Reiner is pictured with his son Nick (right), who has now been arrested in connection with the deaths of his parents

Nick, 32, was seen being placed in handcuffs outside a Los Angeles metro station

LA police have released photos of Nick Reiner being arrested 15 miles from his father Rob Reiner and mother Michele Singer Reiner’s Brentwood mansion

Cheatham said he was standing across the street at the intersection of Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue on Sunday when he saw a ‘normal looking guy’ wearing a red backpack, jacket, beanie and blue jeans walking by himself.

He said he noticed the man strolling across the sidewalk alone when cops arrived, and kept watching while a K9 police unit arrived at the scene 30 minutes later.

It is unclear whether Nick took the metro or a taxi to the area from the Pierside Hotel in Santa Monica, where staff reportedly discovered a shower ‘full of blood’, blood all over the bed and the windows blacked out with bedsheets.

But Cheatham claims Nick had been on the move, ‘going westbound on Exposition on foot’ when police pulled up on him.

‘I’m assuming they caught him surprised. He wasn’t attacked, he was approached. He was minding his own business,’ the witness said.

‘When he came to the corner, that’s when I started watching him. He looked cool, he wasn’t bothering anyone. He seemed like a regular person, he didn’t seem out of the ordinary.’

The spot where Nick was apprehended is a busy intersection near the USC campus and Exposition park, an area which is usually bustling with students and traffic from the nearby metro station. 

Kevin Cheatham (pictured), 34, told the Daily Mail that Nick looked calm throughout the dramatic arrest

Daytime pictures show the intersection where Nick Reiner was arrested

Dramatic pictures released by the LAPD show Marshalls in body armor cuffing Nick and holding him down to the ground in front of a nearby Metro station. 

Cheatham described his surprise at how calm Nick remained during the arrest, saying he didn’t seem like someone who was ‘belligerent, loud or disturbing the peace.’

‘When he got approached, I was surprised. Normally when people get approached like that there is an incident,’ Cheatham said, completely unaware at the time of the allegations against Nick.

Cheatham said he wasn’t aware that Rob Reiner and his wife were allegedly murdered and was shocked to hear that the man he saw arrested was both their son and the prime suspect.

‘It’s shocking for an artist out there to lose their life – it’s a huge impact,’ he said of Reiner.

Nick, the famous actor’s younger son and the second of his three children, was quickly named as a suspect in the brutal murder of his Hollywood legend father and photographer mother.

Police said during a press conference Tuesday that there was no indication that Nick was under the influence of any drugs at the time of his parents’ killings.

He was charged with two counts of first degree murder and ‘a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous weapon,’ LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said.

He added that no decision had yet been made on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. 

‘These are some of the most serious charges that a DA’s office can bring against anyone, and we anticipate that the discovery that we will produce to the defence will be robust,’ Hochman said. ‘They’ll want adequate time to review it, though.’

Family photo: The Reiners pictured with their children Jake (middle), Romy and Nick in 2014

The Reiners were found dead at their $13.5million six-bed Brentwood home (pictured)

Rob and Michele Reiner’s 27-year-old daughter Romy is understood to have made the horrifying discovery of their bodies, and reportedly told cops to track down her ‘dangerous’ brother.

The Reiners died some time between Saturday evening – after leaving Conan O’Brien’s holiday party, which they had attended with Nick – and around 3.30pm on Sunday, when Romy reportedly called 911.

It is understood that the couple were found dead in their bed.

‘He could have done it not long after they all went home [from O’Brien’s holiday party] – meaning he went there and slit their throats in the middle of the night,’ a source claimed to the Daily Mail. ‘They were in bed when that happened.’

The Los Angeles Police Department has not officially confirmed any details of where in the house the Reiners’ bodies were found.

TMZ first reported that Reiner, 78, had a ‘very loud argument’ with his son at O’Brien’s holiday bash on Saturday night, after which the movie director and his wife left.

One partygoer told People magazine that ‘Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy, [and] kept asking people if they were famous.’

Nick had been living in the guest house of his parents’ LA mansion, a source close to him told the Daily Mail.

‘It had been like a revolving door all his adult life,’ the source claimed.

‘He would do meth and not sleep for days and then have outbursts, breaking things, punching walls. He was a ticking time bomb. His drug use was getting worse and his parents wanted him out.’

Nick is currently being held in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Downtown LA, where his bail was initially set at $4million before being rescinded.