D4vd arrested on suspicion of murder of Celeste Rivas found dead in his Tesla

D4vd has been under investigation for months (Picture: Best Image/Backgrid)

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing Celeste Rivas Hernandez,who went missing last year.

The 21-year-old has been under investigation for months after Hernandez’s remains were found in a Tesla registered to him in September.

Los Angeles police said the singer,whose legal name is David Anthony Burke,was being held without bail on suspicion of murder.

The teenager’s cause of death remains unknown. She was last seen by her family in April 2024,when she went missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore. The then-13-year-old had said she was going to watch a movie.

Court documents show authorities had given her age as 14 when she was killed,after she was identified through forensics.

The Houston-born singer was escorted in handcuffs away from his Hollywood Hills home on Thursday.

Police are said to have shouted ‘surrender’ over a loudspeaker to prompt the rapper to come out from his home,according to a neighbour who spoke with The California Post.

The LAPD commanding officer of the robbery-homicide division,Captain Scot M. Williams,said: ‘We came to the home with a probable cause arrest warrant for him.

D4vd was arrested at his Hollywood home (Picture: Masatoshi Okauvhi/Shutterstock)

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead in a Tesla registered to D4vd (Picture: ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

‘We did the best we can to keep tabs on him,but once we developed probable cause to arrest him for murder,then we were on him pretty diligently.’

The Tesla was found abandoned at a tow yard last year. Hernandez was found inside after employees complained of a foul smell coming from the car.

Police investigators are reported to have found a cadaver bag containing a head and torso,as well as a second bag with other body parts inside,according to court documents.

D4vd’s attorneys have said they will ‘vigorously defend’ their client’s innocence (Picture: Michael Hurcomb/Shutterstock)

D4vd’s attorneys Blair Berk,Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter have said they will ‘vigorously defend’ their client’s innocence.

They said: ‘Let us be clear – the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death.

‘There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed.

‘David has only been detained under suspicion.’

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The singer had been on tour when Hernandez was discovered,and subsequently cancelled his remaining dates. A spokesperson for the artist said at the time that he was ‘fully cooperating with the authorities’.

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