A 14-year-old teenager who was murdered by singer D4vd last year, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, died of “multiple penetrating injuries.” This is according to the medical examiner’s report, which was published on Wednesday. TASR writes about it according to the Reuters agency.
- Fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez died from multiple penetrating injuries.
- Her dismembered body was found in the car of singer D4vd in September.
- An autopsy revealed two penetrating wounds to the torso and torn limbs.
- Singer D4vd denied the guilt, despite the threat of death or life imprisonment.
- After the discovery of the teenage girl’s body, the singer canceled his world tour and disappeared from the public eye.
The dismembered body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found in the singer’s car in September a few days after she was supposed to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. The 21-year-old singer – whose real name is David Anthony Burke – was arrested on suspicion of murder last week and was officially charged with the crime on Monday. The judge ordered the release of the autopsy report the same day.
Los Angeles medical examiners reported in a report about finding two “penetrating wounds to the torso” and “tearing of the upper and lower limbs”. The injuries to the torso may have been “caused by a sharp object,” the report said without further specification. Doctors added that the autopsy noted “extensive postmortem changes” on the girl’s body. Time of death was listed as unknown.
Prosecutors say that the poor teenager went to the singer’s house in the Hollywood Hills in April 2025 and then disappeared. The singer denied his guilt on Monday. If found guilty, he faces up to the death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
D4vd rose to fame in 2022 with the song Romantic Homicide, which became popular on the social network TikTok. In April 2025, he released his debut album Withered. After the discovery of Rivas Hernandez’s body, he canceled his world tour and withdrew from public life.