{"id":413869,"date":"2026-07-27T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:23:08","slug":"day-5-of-preliminary-hearing-in-d4vd-murder-case-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413869\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 of preliminary hearing in D4vd murder case \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday marks the fifth day of a preliminary hearing after a week of testimony in the murder case against the singer known as D4vd.<\/p>\n<p>New evidence, graphic photos and forensics were shown by prosecutors to try and convince a judge there\u2019s enough evidence to bring this case to a jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, it is expected that the detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who took the stand on Friday will continue his testimony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that the preliminary hearing could wrap up on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the LAPD detective took the stand and spoke about what was found on D4vd\u2019s phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He described text messages between the singer and the teen, Celeste Rivas Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Some were explicit while others dealt with abortion, marriage plans, Celeste running away from home and ultimately the end of what D4vd allegedly saw as a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The detective also described sexually explicit images found on D4vd\u2019s phone that show him with Celeste when he was 18 and 19 years old and she was 13.<\/p>\n<p>This is evidence that prosecutors believe prove the singer was abusing Celeste.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner also testified Friday and showed photos of the autopsy on the young teen girl.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner explained that Celeste was the victim of a homicide likely caused by \u201csharp force injuries\u201d to her chest and abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s hearing starts at 9:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday marks the fifth day of a preliminary hearing after a week of testimony in the murder case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3552,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-413869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}