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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Dalton

Autopsy doctor details teen girl’s fatal injuries at D4vd’s preliminary hearing

D4vd has pleaded not guilty to murder, sexual abuse of a child and mutilation of a body, and his lawyers have said he is innocent - (AP Photo/Jordan Strauss)

The doctor who performed the autopsy on 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez gave the difficult details of her death Friday at a hearing to determine whether singer D4vd should go on trial in her killing.

Much of what Dr. Grant Ho of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said on the stand was already known: She had been killed by two sharp force wounds to her upper body and her dismembered, decomposing body was found in the trunk of a Tesla.

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