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U.S. singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old woman whose decomposed frame was once discovered ultimate 12 months in an it sounds as if deserted Tesla registered to him that was once towed from the Hollywood Hills, police stated Thursday.
Los Angeles police stated in a temporary observation that the 20-year-old Houston-born alt-pop singer whose felony title is David Anthony Burke was once being held with out bail. Police stated investigators would provide a case to the District Lawyer’s Place of business for attention of fees on Monday.
The singer were underneath investigation by means of an L.A. County grand jury having a look into the loss of life of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
The probe was once formally secret, however its life — and the designation of D4vd as its goal — was once printed on Feb. 25 when his mom, father and brother filed an objection in a Texas court docket to subpoenas not easy they testify.
A Texas pass judgement on stated the 3 may just now not forget about the subpoenas and ordered them to seem in California and testify.
Representatives for the singer have now not answered to more than one requests from The Related Press for remark at the case.
Frame came upon in September 2025
The long-dead frame of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was once discovered on Sept. 8, 2025, an afternoon after she would have grew to become 15.
She was once a 13-year-old 7th grader when her circle of relatives reported her lacking in 2024 from her homeland of Lake Elsinore, about 112 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.
In court docket paperwork, government give her age as 14 when she was once killed.
The subpoena stated police investigators looking the 2023 Tesla Style Y in a tow backyard discovered a cadaver bag “coated with bugs and a powerful odour of deterioration.”
“Detectives in part unzipped the bag and noticed a decomposed head and torso,” it stated.
In line with the court docket paperwork, investigators from the Los Angeles County Scientific Examiner’s Place of business answered to the scene, and once they got rid of the bag from the entrance garage compartment, came upon the legs and arms were severed from the frame.
“A 2nd black bag was once came upon beneath the cadaver bag,” the report learn. “Upon opening the second one bag, the dismembered frame portions have been came upon.”
The Scientific Examiner’s Place of business had up to now stated handiest that the frame was once discovered critically decomposed and that Rivas Hernandez had most likely been lifeless for a longer length ahead of she was once discovered.
In November 2025, Los Angeles police were given a pass judgement on to stop the manager clinical examiner from liberating the post-mortem findings, and no reason behind loss of life has been printed.
The singer was once in the course of a U.S. excursion and endured to play a number of presentations after the frame was once discovered. However he in the end cancelled the remainder of his live shows and a Ecu excursion after his connection to the case turned into broadly reported.