D4vd murder case: Teen victim's family 'shocked' by gruesome details revealed in court filing - BERITAJA

The family of the teenage woman who was killed and dismembered, allegedly by rising musician D4vd, said they were shocked and horrified by the specifications revealed successful tribunal this week, according to a connection released by the family attorney.

In a court little revenge Wednesday, Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman alleged that David Anthony Burke, who performs arsenic D4vd, had covered up his lengthy intersexual maltreatment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, lured her to his Hollywood rental mansion, stabbed her and fto her bleed to death, and past utilized “a chainsaw and possibly different tools” to trim up her assemblage and region 2 of her fingers to destruct a tattoo linking him to her.

Burke, 21, is charged pinch murder, continuous activity maltreatment of a insignificant and mutilating a corpse. Prosecutors opportunity he killed Hernandez because she threatened to expose his maltreatment and ruin his euphony career. Prosecutors opportunity Burke bought a shovel, 2 chainsaws, a assemblage bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, a “burn box”, and a bluish inflatable excavation arsenic portion of a strategy to dispose of her body.

“There are nary words to definitive the indescribable symptom the family is experiencing correct now,” said lawyer Patrick Steinfeld connected behalf of the family. “They still person bills to salary and jobs they spell to each day. All they want is clip to grieve and heal.”

He said that informing the family of the gruesome specifications was the about difficult point he’s done successful his 37-year rule career.

“I primitively encouraged the Rivas Hernandez family to speak publically passim the criminal process. They agreed pinch the afloat support of Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman. However, successful ray of the gruesome specifications emerging almost daily, the family has decided not to make immoderate statements now aliases successful the future,” he added.

Prosecutors’ nine-page little elaborate an abusive narration betwixt the vocalist and the woman that allegedly started erstwhile she was conscionable 11 and ended pinch her slaying successful April 2025. In the days aft Hernandez’s death, Burke utilized an inflatable excavation to incorporate Hernandez’s assemblage arsenic the vocalist dismembered her remains successful the garage, according to a little prosecutors prepared for Burke’s preliminary hearing, astatine which they will make their lawsuit to a judge that there’s capable grounds for Burke to guidelines trial. Bits of integrative from the excavation were discovered embedded successful Hernandez’s remains, the archive said.

Hernandez’s severely decomposed assemblage was recovered successful the trunk of Burke’s Tesla astatine a Hollywood tow gait successful September. Authorities said Hernandez was past seen astatine Burke’s Hollywood residence connected April 23, 2025. The 2 sewage into a “lengthy argument” the nighttime before, pinch Hernandez expressing jealousy complete Burke’s relationships pinch different women and “threatened to disclose damaging accusation about her narration pinch suspect to extremity his profession and destruct his life,” Silverman wrote.

On the nighttime constabulary judge Hernandez was killed, according to the tribunal filing, the vocalist ordered an Uber to bring her from her Lake Elsinore location to Hollywood about 8:40 p.m.

An autopsy study made nationalist past week revealed Hernandez died from a brace of stab wounds. Prosecutors allege that Burke trim disconnected 2 of Hernandez’s fingers to region grounds of a tattoo Hernandez had gotten of the singer’s name.

Hernandez was reported missing by her family aggregate times successful Lake Elsinore successful 2024. Riverside County sheriff’s investigators questioned Burke about her whereabouts successful February 2024, but Burke claimed he was “unaware she was a insignificant aliases that she had been reported missing,” Silverman wrote.

Two days later, she returned location and her parents took distant her cellphone. But Burke allegedly drove to Lake Elsinore and paid a inferior precocious schoolhouse student $1,000 to springiness her a caller telephone truthful they could enactment successful touch, according to the archive revenge Wednesday. Over the adjacent year, Hernandez traveled pinch the vocalist to Las Vegas, Texas and London wherever she met “his family,” Silverman wrote.

Burke’s lead defense attorney, Blair Berk, has not responded to the caller filing aliases returned a petition for comment. She has insisted her customer did not termination the teen. A preliminary proceeding is tentatively scheduled for May 26.