New details emerge about the arrest of singer D4vd in the killing of teenage girl
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Details are emerging about the arrest of the musician known as D4vd in the 2025 slaying of teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez in Hollywood.David Anthony Burke, 21, was taken into custody shortly after 4:30 p.m.Thursday in Hollywood and booked at LAPD’s 77th Street jail hours later.
Images, posted on social media, show members of the Robbery Homicide and Gang and Narcotics divisions approaching a home on a tree-lined street wearing tactical gear and carrying rifles.The road sits off of Sunset Boulevard on a celebrity-filled lane where the likes of Kendall Jenner and Emily Blunt have lived and where Jimmy Kimmel once described himself as the neighborhood watch captain.On Thursday afternoon a procession of LAPD vehicles proceeded up the narrow avenue blocking access to the road on either side of the property.
At some point after 4:30 p.m.detectives with Robbery Homicide Division and heavily armed members of the Gang and Narcotics Division, who specialize in high-profile arrests, moved in and banged loudly on the main door, announcing they are LAPD and there for David Burke, better known as D4vd, and ordered him to come out and surrender.
The singer surrendered and was formally arrested at 5 p.mIn one image from the arrest, an officer appears to use a handheld battering ram to force entry into the front gate of the home.Burke is being held without bail and the case will be presented to the L.A.County district attorney’s office on Monday for filing consideration, according to LAPD.
Burke’s attorneys, Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter, released a joint statement after his arrest, saying, “Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death.” Authorities have released no details about the evidence that led to the arrest.Aug.27: L.A.
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