Singer D4vd Charged with Murder in Death of 14-Year-Old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

By Andrew Dalton Prosecutors said this week that singer D4vd killed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez by stabbing her multiple times then dismembered her body using chainsaws in his garage. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office shared on Wednesday, April 29, what they said the evidence in the case would show in a court filing that provided the first detailed allegations of the killing and efforts to cut apart Rivas Hernandez’s body and get rid of evidence. The court filing said D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, met Rivas Hernandez when she was 11, began sexually abusing her when she was 13 and he was 18, and killed her when she threatened to reveal their inappropriate relationship. “Knowing he had to silence the victim before she ruined his music career as she had threatened, very soon after her arrival at his home, defendant stabbed the victim to death multiple times and stood by while she bled out,” the filing said.