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Jim Yango Fantonial

D4vd Case Update: Star Named 'Murder Target' After Celeste Rivas' Severed Body Found In Tesla

D4vd performing at Visarno Arena in Italy. (Credit: Roberto Fontana/Flickr)

Singer D4vd has been formally identified as the target of a Los Angeles grand jury investigation into the suspected murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered body was found in a Tesla linked to him in September 2025, according to newly unsealed court filings.

The D4vd case update matters because it is the first time prosecutors have been shown in court documents explicitly naming the 20-year-old artist, born David Anthony Burke, as the focus of potential proceedings for one count of murder, even though he has not been charged and no indictment has been announced, according to US media.

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