Arrest comes after police discovered the physique of Celeste Rivas in a automotive registered to the musician final yr.
Revealed On 17 Apr 2026
American rapper David Anthony Burke, recognized by his stage title d4vd, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 14-year-old lady whose dismembered physique was present in a automotive registered to him.
Los Angeles police took the 21-year-old singer into custody on Thursday “for the homicide of Celeste Rivas”, the town’s police division stated in a press release. He’s being held with out bail.
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Burke’s arrest comes seven months after police uncovered Rivas’s badly decomposed body within the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered in his title.
Investigators discovered two black baggage within the car – one holding a decomposed head and torso and the opposite containing different physique elements, in keeping with a courtroom submitting. An post-mortem revealed that Rivas “appeared to have been deceased contained in the car for an prolonged time period earlier than being discovered”. The invention occurred sooner or later earlier than Rivas would have turned 15.
The LA County District Lawyer’s workplace will overview the case in opposition to Burke on Monday for formal expenses, in keeping with police.
Burke’s attorneys issued a press release saying they might “vigorously defend” his “innocence”.
“Allow us to be clear – the precise proof on this case will present that David Burke didn’t homicide Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the reason for her loss of life,” attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter stated in a press release quoted by NBC Information.
Burke, from Queens, New York, shot to web fame in 2022 when his Romantic Murder grew to become a breakout hit on TikTok.
Final yr, the musician cancelled the final a part of his US and European tours amid rising fallout from the investigation into Rivas’s loss of life.
