Prosecutors detail D4vd’s “horrifying” steps to dismember his girlfriend’s body

Los Angeles public prosecutors filed a court filing on Wednesday detailing the “horrifying” steps they claim the indie pop musician took to dismember and hide the body of his 14-year-old girlfriend, who he allegedly stabbed to death in April.

According to the document, which outlines the evidence that prosecutors intend to present in the murder case, the singer-songwriter will have placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent the blood from spreading across the garage floor”, having then amputated the limbs with a chainsaw “and possibly other tools”.

The application, says the agency, states that D4vd, 21 years old, whose legal name is David Burke, had purchased the pool on the internet, under a fictitious name, two chainsaws, a shovel, a body bag and other materials, having them delivered to his residence in the Hollywood Hills after the crime.

The torso and head in an advanced state of decomposition of the singer’s girlfriend, Celeste Rivas Hernandez14, were discovered in September inside a stuffed body bag registered to Burke, according to police, prosecutors and medical examiners.

Underneath was a plastic trash bag containing the victim’s limbs, according to the same sources. Two fingers of the left hand of the young woman, one of which was tattooed with Burke’s name, had been amputated but not recovered, prosecutors said.

According to the eight-page court filing, Burke was the last person driving the vehicle on July 29, 2025, before abandoning it near his residence and going on tour. Weeks later, the car was towed to a yard, where employees detected an odor of decomposition and alerted the authorities.

Wednesday’s request, a copy of which was published by , also presents the prosecutors’ first reference to a possible mobile for crime.

According to prosecutors, Burke acted with the with the intention of silencing the young womansince Rivas Hernandez, driven by jealousy, had threatened him with the disclosure of compromising information about the relationship they maintainedwhich could ruin his promising musical career.

Burke’s first studio album was scheduled for release that same month, and the artist had at the time highly lucrative sponsorship contracts.

According to prosecutors, the two had a sexual relationship when the young girl I was only 11 years old. Authorities recovered text messages with references to sexual relations, pregnancy, abortion and contraception emergency room with the morning-after pill, as well as sexually explicit photographs.

On April 23, 2025, the day after an argument prompted by her threats to expose him, and according to the court filing, “Burke sent her for an Uber and stabbed the victim to death” upon his arrival.

The document, which then describes the “horrifying measures” that Burke will have taken to “destroy and dispose of the victim’s body“, he states that a search carried out in his garage in September revealed signs of dismembermento, including blood samples and fragments of an inflatable pool with “multiple linear cuts”.

Burke achieved notoriety in 2021 after songs she recorded on her cell phone for her gaming videos associated with the Fortnite brand went viral on TikTok, with the hit “Romantic Homicide” contributing to the signing of a contract with the record label Interscope Records.

In 2025, he performed at the Coachella music festival.