{"id":420622,"date":"2026-08-01T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:01:28","slug":"d4vd-murder-case-celeste-rivas-hernandez-was-not-pregnant-at-time-of-her-killing-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420622\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd murder case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez was not pregnant at time of her killing, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Prosecutors do not believe Lake Elsinore teenager <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/d4vd-murder-case-final-texts-celeste-rivas-hernandez-singer-shown-court-during-day-5-hearing\/19586305\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celeste Rivas Hernandez<\/a> was pregnant at the time of her killing, the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office told ABC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/singer-d4vd-arrested-connection-murder-teen-lapd-says\/18901845\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D4vd<\/a>, the 21-year-old singer whose legal name is David Burke, is accused of fatally stabbing Rivas Hernandez inside his Hollywood Hills home last year and later dismembering her body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors allege he killed Rivas Hernandez because she was going to reveal their sexual relationship and damage his music career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE COVERAGE: Judge rules singer D4vd must stand trial in killing of 14-year-old<\/p>\n<p>A judge ruled that there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The development addresses speculation that the 14-year-old may have been killed because she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence to put Burke on trial in the killing and dismemberment of Rivas Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo decided that evidence presented during a preliminary hearing provided probable cause for a trial on charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An arraignment for Burke is to be held on Aug. 31, and a trial could happen as soon as 60 days later. He previously pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Prosecutors do not believe Lake Elsinore teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez was pregnant at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[168022,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-420622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-168022","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\/420622","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=420622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}