D4vd, a rising musical artist who was on his technique to wider stardom, was arrested Thursday (April 16) on suspicion of the homicide of a teenage woman he was allegedly seeing. As the small print of the arrest and the case total proceed to develop, we’ve amassed the information as we all know them concerning D4vd’s case.
D4vd, 21, was born David Burke and was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Houston, Texas. Burke gained fame after making a collection of viral hits, notably 2022’s “Romantic Murder,” a chilling ode to romance gone incorrect, with some followers calling it a foreshadowing of types.
The monitor was fashionable on TikTok, resulting in Interscope Data signing him. Curiosity within the track surged after the invention of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s physique inside Burke’s Tesla in September 2025.
As reported by the Related Press, the Los Angeles Police Division unveiled a brief assertion concerning the arrest and has but to present wider particulars on what led them to take action.
Attorneys for Burke, Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski, and Regina Peter shared an electronic mail assertion with the AP, which learn, “Allow us to be clear — the precise proof on this case will present that David Burke didn’t homicide Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the reason for her demise.”
Because it stands, LAPD detectives will current the case to the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace this coming Monday (April 20), and there seem like strikes to file fees. Burke’s attorneys as soon as extra added an announcement in protection of their shopper and proclaiming his innocence.
“There was no indictment returned by any grand jury on this case and no felony criticism filed. David has solely been detained beneath suspicion. We are going to vigorously defend David’s innocence,” the attorneys stated.
Burke was beneath suspicion way back in reference to the teenager’s demise, and a Los Angeles County grand jury launched an investigation. The investigation was reportedly beneath wraps till February of this 12 months after members of Burke’s household filed objections to subpoenas to testify in a Texas courtroom.
Rivas Hernandez’s physique was present in a Tesla registered to Burke after it was towed in Hollywood Hills in early September of final 12 months, only a day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. The woman’s household, situated in Lake Elsinore, reported her lacking in 2024 when she was simply 13 and in seventh grade. The city is round 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
The teenager’s physique was discovered contained in the Tesla registered to the Texas handle of Burke’s household and beneath the singer’s title, as talked about. Rivas Hernandez’s physique was fully dismembered and located in a bag, in response to the health worker’s preliminary stories.
D4vd is at the moment being held with out bail, though the placement has not been made public.
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