WARNING: This article contains graphic & disturbing details of an alleged murder & sexual abuse of a minor.
D4vd‘s preliminary hearing in downtown LA today for the alleged murder and sexual abuse of teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fleeting. However, a grisly filing from prosecutors Wednesday detailing the ‘Romantic Homicide’ singer’s “horrifying” crimes paints a very vivid and permanent portrait of butchery.
“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 brief from the District Attorney’s office claims of 21-year-old D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke) killing then-14-year-old Hernandez on April 23, 2025.
Previously, contacted by Riverside police and the LA County Sheriff’s department and under investigation, D4vd repeatedly denied to authorities he
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