In a court filing, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the 21-year-old, whose legal name is David Burke, carried out actions to hide the death of the 14-year-old victim, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, following an alleged attack in April 2025.
According to the document, outlining evidence prosecutors plan to present in their murder case, the singer-songwriter placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent blood from spilling onto his garage floor,” then removed her limbs with a chain saw “and perhaps other tools.”
The brief said that D4vd (pronounced “David”), had purchased the pool, two chain saws, a shovel, a cadaver bag and other materials online under a fictitious name and had them delivered to his Hollywood Hills home after the killing.
The badly decomposed torso and head of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, were discovered in September inside a cadaver bag stuffed in the trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke, according to police, prosecutors and medical examiners. Underneath was a plastic garbage bag containing the victim’s limbs, they said.
Two fingers on the girl’s left hand, one of them tattooed with Burke’s name, had been amputated but were not recovered, prosecutors said.
According to the eight-page court filing, Burke was the last person to drive the vehicle on July 29, 2025, before he left it abandoned near his home and departed on a concert tour. Weeks later, the car was towed to an impoundment lot where workers reported the odor of decay and alerted authorities