The singer D4vd has been arrested in reference to the death of a teenage girl whose decomposing physique was discovered in September within the trunk of a towed Tesla registered to the singer, the Los Angeles Police Division instructed ABC Information.
Officers stated D4vd, whose authorized title is David Burke and is a 21-year-old resident of Los Angeles, is being held for the alleged homicide of Celeste Rivas Hernandez with out bail.
Sources instructed ABC Information the arrest is predicated on proof and possible trigger that was developed. It was not an indictment.
The LAPD stated the case will probably be offered to the L.A. District Lawyer’s Workplace on Monday for submitting consideration.
Rivas Hernandez, a 14-year-old from Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, was reported lacking in 2024, investigators confirmed to ABC Information in October.
In response to sources on the time, the woman’s physique was dismembered, and the method of dismembering and disposing of her physique is believed to have probably concerned multiple particular person.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – MAY 25: d4vd performs throughout the 2024 Boston Calling Music Competition at Harvard Athletic Complicated on Could 25, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The teenager might have been useless for a number of weeks earlier than her physique was found, police stated.
Officers responded to an impound lot in Hollywood on Sept. 8 “for a foul odor coming from a automobile,” Los Angeles police stated.
Authorities situated a physique within the entrance trunk of the Tesla that was in a state of decomposition, LAPD sources stated.
The Tesla had been on the impound lot for 2 days after being discovered deserted on a Hollywood avenue, investigators stated. The towed automobile was registered to Burke.
D4vd, who first went viral on TikTok, the place he has practically 4 million followers, had been on his “Withered” world tour when the physique was found in his automobile. The previous few exhibits of the tour, together with these in San Francisco and Los Angeles, had been canceled.
Reveals on the European leg of the tour had been additionally canceled.
Promotion on the deluxe version of the “Romantic Murder” singer’s debut album, which was set to be launched on Sept. 19, was additionally paused, a supply near the state of affairs beforehand instructed ABC Information.
