The singer D4vd has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the “brutal and horrific” death<\/a> of a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his towed Tesla last year in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced on Monday.<\/p>\n D4vd — a 21-year-old Los Angeles resident whose legal name is David Burke — was arrested last week in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez following a monthslong investigation, police said. He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n Singer-songwriter, David Burke aka D4vd sits in artist space at Coachella music festival on April 18, 2025 in Indio, Calif. (AP Photo)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The charges come after the Los Angeles Police Department presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Monday for filing consideration.<\/p>\n He faces a maximum sentence of life, without the possibility of parole, Hochman said.<\/p>\n In this file photo, photographs, notes, and flowers are among the items left at a memorial for slain teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez in Lake Elsinore, Calif, on Sept. 25, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Gina Ferazzi\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rivas Hernandez’s family is expected to attend the presser and court hearing, their attorney said.<\/p>\n “The Rivas Hernandez family is committed to ensuring that Celeste’s voice is heard and her memory is honored throughout this process,” the attorney, Patrick Steinfeld, said in a statement.<\/p>\n D4vd’s attorneys maintained his innocence following his arrest on Thursday.<\/p>\n “Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,” his attorneys said in a statement. “We will vigorously defend David’s innocence.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Los Angeles Police Department officers work during the arrest of David Burke, a 21-year-old musician known professionally as D4vd, on suspicion of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas, at an undisclosed location, April 16, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n LAPD\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rivas Hernandez, from Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, had been missing for over a year when her badly decomposed, dismembered body was found in the trunk of D4vd’s abandoned, impounded Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard in September 2025, officials said.<\/p>\n Her head and torso were found in one bag, and her arms and legs in another, according to the court documents from Hochman filed in connection with a Los Angeles County\u00a0grand jury investigation<\/a>\u00a0in connection with the teen’s death.<\/p>\n The Tesla had been at the impound lot for two days after being found abandoned on a Hollywood street, investigators said. The towed vehicle was registered to Burke.<\/p>\n![\"D4vd-Arrest-What](\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/c2ac015f-916f-4bed-80f2-ffb25607c64c\/wirestory_7d278e5f2fc1e3c4bce9dabb0bdc2098_16x9.jpg?w=375 "\\"artist\\"")
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