{"id":405831,"date":"2026-04-22T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:18:10","slug":"teen-whom-singer-d4vd-is-charged-with-killing-died-from-penetrating-wounds-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405831\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen whom singer D4vd is charged with killing died from penetrating wounds | Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl whom the singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating injuries, according to an autopsy report released on Wednesday after a months-long delay.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles<\/a> county medical examiner\u2019s office had in December determined that her death was a homicide caused by multiple penetrating injuries. The office was unable to release the report as it was sealed by a judge at the request of law enforcement until prosecutors this week moved to lift the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter several months, I am grateful this information can now be released, not only to the public, but also to the grieving family enduring loss,\u201d medical examiner Dr Odey C Ukpo said in a statement. \u201cIt is unfathomable they have had to wait this long to learn what happened to their daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, police found the girl\u2019s dismembered and decomposed remains in a pair of bags in the trunk of a Tesla that was registered to the artist and had been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills. The condition of her remains delayed the medical examiner\u2019s ability to determine her cause of death, the Los Angeles police chief, Jim McDonnell, said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old alt-pop singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged in the killing on Monday. He pleaded<\/a> not guilty to first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14, and mutilating a dead body. Nathan Hochman, the LA district attorney, said this week that Burke engaged in a sexual relationship with Celeste. The murder charge includes the special circumstances of lying in wait, allegedly killing the teen for financial gain to maintain his \u201clucrative\u201d career, and murdering a witness to an investigation.<\/p>\n

Burke has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys said he did not cause Celeste\u2019s death and they will vigorously defend his innocence.<\/p>\n

Hochman said Celeste went to Burke\u2019s home on 23 April 2025 and was never heard from again. Prosecutors allege he killed the girl because she threatened to report they had a sexual relationship that began when she was 13 years old and he feared it would ruin his rising career.<\/p>\n

A criminal complaint alleges he killed her with a sharp object and dismembered the body about two weeks later.<\/p>\n

According to the autopsy, she had significant wounds to her torso, likely caused by a sharp object. One wound penetrated her liver.<\/p>\n

Her body had so degraded that examiners couldn\u2019t determine her eye color. She had braces at the time of her death, and a tattoo that read \u201cShhh\u2026.\u201d on the inside of a finger, according to the report. Two other fingers were missing, as were parts of her arms and legs.<\/p>\n

Ukpo has sought to emphasize his agency\u2019s independence from law enforcement and to make its work as public as possible since he took over the job three years ago. He has said he does not believe sealing reports of his office\u2019s work helps investigations and has said he would only put holds on releasing the reports if compelled by a court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl whom the singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating injuries,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-405831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}