Musician charged after the dismembered and decomposing body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez found in abandoned Tesla
The singer D4vd has been charged with the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenage girl whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in the artist’s apparently abandoned Tesla in September.
The Los Angeles county district attorney’s office said the 21-year-old, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Celeste, who was reported missing by her family in 2024, when she was 13. Authorities say she was 14 when she died.
Nathan Hochman, the LA district attorney, said during a press conference on Monday that Burke engaged in a sexual relationship with Celeste. He faces a murder charge with special circumstances, as well as charges for continuous lewd and lascivious sexual acts with an individual under 14, and mutilating human remains. Hochman described the killing as a “brutal and horrific murder”.
Burke will be arraigned on Monday afternoon.
