Overview
- The Los Angeles County medical examiner released the autopsy Wednesday, ruling Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s death a homicide caused by “multiple penetrating injuries.”
- The public report describes two torso wounds that pierced her liver and left chest and documents extensive dismemberment, with screening noting presumptive benzodiazepines and methamphetamine/MDMA pending confirmation.
- Prosecutors charged singer David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, on Monday with first-degree murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and mutilating remains, adding special-circumstance allegations of lying in wait, financial gain and murdering a witness that raise the maximum penalty to life without parole or death.
- Burke pleaded not guilty and remains jailed without bail, and his attorneys say he did not cause the teen’s death and will mount a vigorous defense.
- Investigators say the 14-year-old was last seen April 23, 2025 at Burke’s Hollywood Hills home and her dismembered remains were found September 8, 2025 in the front trunk of his Tesla, and her family said the autopsy findings deepened their grief as they continue to seek justice.