Death Probe
The unsealed court documents describe the singer as someone who “may be involved in having committed” a crime listed as “one count of murder”
Singer D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, has been formally identified as the “target” of a grand jury investigation into the alleged homicide of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, according to recently unsealed court documents obtained by Rolling Stone.
Petitions included as exhibits in a 151-page filing by lawyers representing D4vd’s parents and brother state that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office identified the singer as the target of its grand jury inquiry. The documents, filed in Texas without the sealing protections applied in California, sought grand jury testimony from D4vd’s father, Dawud Burke, his mother, Colleen Burke, and his brother, Caleb Burke, starting on Feb. 11. The documents described D4vd as someone who “may be involved in having committed” a crime listed as “one count of murder.”
The filings also disclosed new details about the condition of Rivas Hernandez’s remains when investigators opened the trunk of D4vd’s towed Tesla at an impound yard on Sept. 8, 2025. “When the front storage compartment was opened, detectives observed a black cadaver bag covered with insects and a strong odor of decay,” the documents said. “Utilizing black latex gloves, detectives partially unzipped the bag and observed a decomposed head and torso.”
