Overview
- The multi‑day preliminary hearing in Los Angeles is continuing as prosecutors present laboratory tests, phone and cloud records, purchase receipts and investigative testimony to persuade a judge to bind the case over for trial.
- LAPD criminalists testified that blood from items in the singer’s Hollywood Hills garage matched the victim’s DNA and that a trash‑bag sample contained a four‑person DNA mixture that could not exclude the defendant.
- The county medical examiner said the 14‑year‑old died from two penetrating sharp‑force wounds to the chest and abdomen, a finding prosecutors used to describe how the killing occurred.
- Defense lawyers repeatedly challenged the prosecution’s forensic interpretations and investigators’ methods, arguing the evidence is contestable at the probable‑cause stage.
- Separately, multiple outlets reported that an Apple Music account linked to the singer was compromised and a falsified track titled “I DID IT” was posted, raising new concerns about online interference and misinformation during active court proceedings.