Los Angeles (AP) — Singer d4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old lady whose decomposed physique was discovered final 12 months in an apparently deserted Tesla registered to him that was towed from the Hollywood Hills, police stated Thursday.
Los Angeles police stated in a quick assertion that the 21-year-old Houston-born alt-pop singer whose authorized identify is David Burke was being held with out bail. Police stated investigators would current a case to the District Attorneys Office for consideration of fees on Monday.
The singer had been underneath investigation by an LA County grand jury wanting into the loss of life of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The probe was formally secret, however its existence — and the designation of d4vd as its goal — was revealed on February 25 when his mom, father and brother filed an objection in a Texas courtroom to subpoenas demanding they testify.
Emails searching for remark from an legal professional and a publicist who’ve beforehand labored with d4vd weren’t instantly returned. His representatives haven’t responded to a number of earlier requests from The Associated Press for touch upon the case.
The long-dead physique of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered in a Tesla on September 8, a day after she would have turned 15. She was a 13-year-old seventh grader when her household reported her lacking in 2024 from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Authorities give her age as 14 when she was killed in courtroom paperwork.
The 2023 Tesla Model Y was registered in the singer’s identify on the Texas deal with of his subpoenaed members of the family, based on courtroom filings from prosecutors. It had been towed from an upscale neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills the place it had been sitting, seemingly deserted.
Correction:
A earlier model of this story supplied the mistaken age for d4vd. He is 21.