D4vd murder case: Teen girl suffered multiple stab wounds, L.A. County M.E. says
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Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whom singer D4vd is charged with killing, died of multiple penetrating injuries before someone amputated her legs, arms and two of her fingers, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner revealed Wednesday.Details of the 14-year-old’s gruesome death had been hidden from public view for months, after law enforcement agencies went to court to block the medical examiner from releasing her autopsy results.The need for secrecy came to an end this week after the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, with murder, sexual abuse of a child and mutilation of a corpse.
The medical examiner’s office determined a cause of death on Dec.9, about three months after Celeste’s badly decomposed body was found in the trunk of a car that belonged to Burke, according to the report.
The car had been towed from a location in Hollywood in late August.Burke, 21, has denied all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday.
His attorney Blair Berk has demanded an immediate preliminary hearing and insisted prosecutors’ case could not stand up to scrutiny.Burke is due back in court Thursday morning in downtown L.A.
In announcing the charges against Burke earlier this week, prosecutors said the ascendant music star had began sexually abusing Hernandez in September 2023, when she was just 13 years old, and killed her because she posed a threat to his career.Los Angeles County Dist.
Atty.Nathan Hochman said Hernandez “threatened to expose his criminal conduct,” but declined to elaborate on what specifically happened.
Hernandez was last seen at a Hollywood Hills home with Burke on April 23, 2025.Prosecutors allege Celeste was killed “on or about” that date, according to a criminal complaint.
She had been reported missing from her family’s Lake Elsinore neighborhood at least ...