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WARNING: This article contains schematic & disturbing specifications of an alleged murder & intersexual maltreatment of a minor.
D4vd‘s preliminary proceeding successful downtown LA coming for nan alleged execution and intersexual maltreatment of teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fleeting. However, a grisly filing from prosecutors Wednesday detailing nan ‘Romantic Homicide’ singer’s “horrifying” crimes paints a very vivid and imperishable image of butchery.
“Knowing he had to soundlessness nan unfortunate earlier she ruined his euphony profession arsenic she had threatened, very soon aft her presence astatine his home, suspect stabbed nan unfortunate to decease aggregate times and stood by while she bled out,” nan little from nan District Attorney’s agency claims of 21-year-old D4vd (real sanction David Anthony Burke) sidesplitting then-14-year-old Hernandez connected April 23, 2025.
Previously, contacted by Riverside constabulary and nan LA County Sheriff’s section and nether investigation, D4vd many times denied to authorities he knew Hernandez was a insignificant aliases that he had been pursuing her since she was 11-years-old.The prosecution believes D4vd killed Hernandez past twelvemonth because that nighttime because of her texted suspicious threats “to extremity his profession and destruct his life” complete their narration and his engagement pinch others.
Reported missing by her Riverside parents complete a twelvemonth agone aft catching an Uber to nan singer’s house, nan teen’s rotting, decomposed and dismembered assemblage was yet discovered connected September 8, 2025 successful an impounded Tesla registered successful D4vd’s name. Away connected circuit astatine nan clip nan car was opened, nan TikTok prima promised to activity pinch constabulary successful their investigation. On September 16, 2025, nan Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Department positively identified nan assemblage from dental records arsenic belonging to nan victim,” today’s filing states of conscionable really hacked-up and putrified Hernandez’s remains were.
D4vd was arrested by nan LAPD astatine his residence connected April 16 and taken into custody successful DTLA wherever he remains without bail. Potentially facing nan decease punishment aliases astatine slightest life beind bars, the not blameworthy pleading D4vd has been charged with first-degree execution and continuous intersexual abuse.
With those charges astatine nan fore, nan nine-page filing against D4vd coming besides puts paid to Elmore Leonard‘s conception that it’s galore criminals’ sheer stupidity that comes to wound them successful nan end. In this case, D4vd seems to person near a blatant and easy discovered integer way that makes immoderate alibi, for illustration leaving messages connected Hernandez’s telephone aft she was dead, crumble.
“Tellingly, suspect …purchased devices to transportation retired his crippled to dismember and dispose of nan victim’s body,” nan DA’s filing outlines. “On April 24, 2025, suspect ordered a shovel from Home Depot that was delivered to his location from Postmates,” they add, compiling a timeline. “On May 1, 2025, suspect ordered, and subsequently Amazon delivered, 2 chainsaws to his home. On May 5, 2025, suspect ordered, and Amazon subsequently delivered, a assemblage bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a bluish inflatable excavation to his home. He made these purchases nether nan clone sanction Victoria Mendez.”
Along pinch a bid of precocious nighttime and surveillance camera documented trips to a somewhat isolated area of Santa Barbara County and yet leaving his car abandoned conscionable up nan thoroughfare from his house, nan filng says that “on July 7, 2025, suspect ordered, and subsequently Amazon delivered, a bum cage to his location nether nan aforesaid clone sanction arsenic portion of his scheme to incinerate evidence.”
It gets worse.
“Moreover, suspect took horrifying measures to destruct and discard nan victim’s body,” nan document’s yet unsuccessful statement against immoderate continuance adds. “After placing her assemblage into nan bluish inflatable excavation to forestall her humor from spilling onto his car shed floor, suspect utilized a chainsaw and possibly different devices to trim disconnected her limbs.”
The filing from Deputy DA Beth Silverman and DA Nathan Hochman goes connected to uncover really that excavation became pivotal to nan case: “Small bluish integrative fragments were recovered embedded successful nan victim’s remains, which were collected by nan Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Department. The fragments were analyzed by nan LAPD‘s Forensic Science Division, Trace Analysis Unit. An master was capable to make a beingness fresh lucifer from nan bluish fragments to nan bluish inflatable excavation purchased by suspect successful May 2025. In bid to region himself from nan victim, he amputated her near ringing and pinky fingers because her ringing digit contained a tattoo of his name. Her fingers person not been recovered.”
Allowing D4vd’s defense lawyers Blair Berk and Marilyn Bednarski much clip to look astatine nan accumulated evidence, including intersexual images of Hernandez recovered connected their client’s phone, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo has ordered a preliminary proceeding successful nan lawsuit for May 26. Before that, a position proceeding will return spot astatine nan Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center connected May 12.
Judge Olmedo, who oversaw the rape tests of now incarcerated That ’70s Show prima Danny Masterson, denied nan defense’s desire to person today’s schematic filing from nan DA’s agency sealed.
