{"id":571742,"date":"2026-07-28T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:00:09","slug":"us-singer-d4vd-to-stand-trial-over-murder-of-teenage-girl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571742\/","title":{"rendered":"US singer D4vd to stand trial over murder of teenage girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US singer D4vd will stand trial on charges of murder and the dismemberment of a teenage girl, a judge ordered.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0420\/1569245-rapper-d4vd-murder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had been charged in April over the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez<\/a>, whose body was found in September last year, days after what would have been her 15th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Charlaine Olmedo ruled there was enough incriminating evidence to proceed after a five-day hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The singer rose to fame in 2022 when his song &#8216;Romantic Homicide&#8217; became a viral sensation on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burke has denied one count each of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains.<\/p>\n<p>He could face life imprisonment or the death penalty if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US singer D4vd will stand trial on charges of murder and the dismemberment of a teenage girl, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-571742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}