Watch : D4vd's Final Texts With Celeste Rivas Hernandez Before Her Murder RevealedPolice found the decomposing remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez in the trunk of D4vd's impounded Tesla in September 2025. Seven months later, the singer born David Anthony Burke was arrested and charged with Hernandez's murder, prosecutors alleging that they had an illicit sexual relationship starting when she was 13 and he was 18, and that he killed her after she threatened to destroy his career. The "Romantic Homicide" artist stands accused of luring Hernandez to his house in the Hollywood Hills on April 23, 2025, after which, according to prosecutors, he fatally stabbed her and used a chainsaw to dismember her body. D4vd has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains. After a five-day preliminary hearing, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo ruled July 27 that there was enough evidence to send the case to trial.