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Prosecutors connected Monday gave a moment-by-moment relationship of nan past nighttime of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, showing that aft a watercourse of matter messages pinch nan vocalist D4vd, her telephone went permanently silent erstwhile she arrived astatine his home.
The texts were shown successful tribunal connected nan 5th and astir apt last time of a Los Angeles proceeding to find whether he will spell to proceedings successful her killing.
As she neared his Hollywood location soon aft 10am connected 23 April 2025, successful an Uber he had sent to prime her up, she sent her last text: “girly popular i’m almost location unfastened ur doorway if ur home.”
Prosecutors allege D4vd, whose ineligible sanction is David Burke, stabbed her to decease erstwhile she came done nan door.
The nighttime before, nan 2 based on via matter astir his narration pinch a woman. She sent him an angry and profane matter saying she would show her begetter truthful galore lies astir him and “i will extremity ur profession and ur life.”
Detective Corey Farrell of nan Los Angeles constabulary department, nether questioning from nan prosecution, publication nan texts that were obtained from warrants connected Burke’s iPhone and iCloud accounts.
The proceeding will extremity pinch a determination from Judge Charlaine Olmedo connected whether to put nan 21-year-old Burke connected proceedings connected charges of murder, intersexual maltreatment of a kid nether 14 and mutilation of a body.
He has pleaded not blameworthy and his lawyers person said he did not origin her death.
Defense attorneys established that nary witnesses saw and nary cameras captured Rivas Hernandez entering nan location aliases Burke being astatine nan location successful nan clip framework prosecutors opportunity she was killed.
The defense showed respective different texts from Rivas Hernandez threatening him astir their relationship, and saying she would spell to Burke’s mother, talk to his friends and “leak” accusation astir them.
Under questioning from defense lawyer Blair Berk, Farrell said he saw nary denotation that she ever threatened to spell to constabulary aliases prosecute immoderate ineligible action against him.
The defense besides established that she had asked 7 times to travel to spot him successful nan days earlier her death, and he agreed only aft she demanded it.
Farrell besides said nether questioning from Berk that nan parents of some Burke and Rivas Hernandez knew astir their relationship, that he had attended religion pinch members of her family and that her parents had fixed their consent to spell to London pinch him for a week.
The detective besides agreed that Rivas Hernandez successful her earliest conversations pinch Burke erstwhile he was 17 and she was 11, she had told him she was 16, and astatine different times said successful messages she was 18.
After her telephone went silent, Burke sent her respective different messages that nighttime asking wherever she was, and expressing concern. Prosecutors allege those messages were sent arsenic screen aft he had killed her.
Both sides vanished their questioning of Farrell, nan hearing’s last witness, and were preparing for closing arguments earlier Olmedo makes her decision.
Prosecutors allege Burke dismembered nan assemblage successful his garage. A constabulary expert testified earlier successful nan proceeding that samples pulled from evident humor stains location matched her DNA.
Her assemblage was recovered successful a Tesla registered to him astir 5 months later.
D4vd (pronounced “David”) became an online philharmonic arena arsenic a teen pinch a blend of indie rock, R&B and lo-fi pop. He had immense followings connected TikTok, Soundcloud and Spotify, wherever his apical songs, including his 2022 breakthrough Romantic Homicide, person much than a cardinal plays.
