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Singer D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday on suspicion of murder. The 21-year-old is being held without bail in connection with the death of a teenage girl whose decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of his abandoned Tesla last year.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the arrest and the ongoing investigation into the discovery made in 2025. The case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office on Monday, police said.
The prosecutor's office said Thursday that its major crimes division will review the case. Attorneys for the entertainer said they were prepared to vigorously defend David’s innocence.”
“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, attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement Thursday night after his arrest. There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed.
David has only been detained under suspicion.” Burke was arrested shortly after 4:30 p.m. at a house on Marmont Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, LAPD Capt. Scot Williams said. We did the best we can to keep tabs on him, but once we developed probable cause to arrest him for murder, then we were on him pretty diligently,” Williams told the California Post in a statement.
On Sept. 8, police found the remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14, in the trunk of a Tesla impounded at Hollywood Tow. Officers were called to the lot because of a foul odor coming from the vehicle. Inside a black cadaver bag in the vehicle's trunk, officers found a decomposed head and torso, according to court filings associated with a grand jury investigation. A second bag contained dismembered body parts.
The filings say Burke was the target of the investigation. It isn't clear how Celeste died. The medical examiner’s office said last year that it couldn't release details about her cause and manner of death because of a security hold sought by police.
