Autopsy of Celeste Rivas Hernandez finally released after law enforcement had requested it be sealed in November
Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl whom the singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating injuries, according to an autopsy report released on Wednesday after a months-long delay.
The Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office had in December determined that her death was a homicide caused by multiple penetrating injuries. The office was unable to release the report as it was sealed by a judge at the request of law enforcement until prosecutors this week moved to lift the order.
“After several months, I am grateful this information can now be released, not only to the public, but also to the grieving family enduring loss,” medical examiner Dr Odey C Ukpo said in a statement. “It is unfathomable they have had to wait this long to learn what happened to their daughter.”
In September, police found the girl’s dismembered and decomposed remains in a pair of bags in the trunk of a Tesla that was registered to the artist and had been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills. The condition of her remains delayed the medical examiner’s ability to determine her cause of death, the Los Angeles police chief, Jim McDonnell, said earlier this week.
