Lawyers For D4vd Just Reacted To The Murder Charges

Warning: Discussion of execution and kid abuse.

The 21-year-old "Romantic Homocide" vocalist D4vd has been charged with, among different things, the execution of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Earlier today, LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell gave a property league astir the "brutal and horrific murder." In it, McDonnell said that helium has spoken with Celeste's family, and stated, "Their grief is uncalculable arsenic to what happened to their daughter. What they person demanded, what we person assured them...[is to] bring their slayer to justice. That killer, who we person present charged, is [D4vd's existent name] David Anthony Burke."

Here are the main takeaways from the charges and the property conference:

McDonnell described Celeste arsenic a "reported runaway from Riverside County." He continued, "During the people of our investigation, detectives learned that she had been progressive successful a intersexual narration with Mr. Burke erstwhile she was a minor, and helium was an adult."

"On April 23 2025, arsenic has been alleged by the complaint, Celeste, a 14-year-old astatine that time, went to Mr. Burke's location successful the Hollywood Hills," Hochman alleged. "She was ne'er heard from again."

"On September 8, 2025, arsenic alleged successful the complaint, Miss Celeste's dismembered and decomposed remains were recovered successful 2 bags wrong of a beforehand trunk of a car registered to Mr. Burke. Thereafter began an investigation," helium continued, noting elsewhere that the coroner's study would beryllium released soon.

As per AP News and documents disposable online, a transgression ailment further claimed that D4vd sexually abused Celeste from September 2023 to September 2024. Prosecutors alleged that helium killed her utilizing a crisp entity and past mutilated her assemblage astir 2 weeks later.

D4vd has been charged with archetypal grade execution with peculiar circumstances.

The archetypal of the peculiar circumstances is lying successful wait, which is fundamentally the allegation that Celeste attended D4vd's location "at his invitation," wherever helium waited to onslaught her. The 2nd 1 is "that this execution was committed for fiscal gain," arsenic Hochman claimed D4vd wanted to "maintain his precise lucrative philharmonic career, that Celeste was threatening connected that peculiar night."

Finally, Hochman claimed that D4vd had murdered "a witnesser to an investigation," arsenic Celeste was allegedly a unfortunate of his intersexual abuse. Additionally, D4vd was been charged with "continuous...lewd and lascivious acts with an idiosyncratic nether 14 years old" and "mutilating quality remains."

As per Hochman, the charges transportation a "maximum condemnation of beingness without the anticipation of parol, oregon the decease penalty."

Hochman said that determination is physical, forensic, and integer grounds of the crimes, and that their details would beryllium revealed successful court.

LAPD Chief McDonnell acknowledged that the section had faced "criticism" implicit the handling of their case, particularly arsenic details were withheld from the public. "My work is not to substance speculation, but to present justice. That requires patience and subject connected everybody's part," helium retorted. "We had to beryllium definite that thing we did oregon said would ever jeopardize this case."

Calling the lawsuit "extraordinary, difficult, and complex," helium further said, "The information of her remains delayed the aesculapian examiner's quality to beryllium capable to find origin of death."

"The important magnitude of clip that passed betwixt her decease and the find meant that important grounds had degraded oregon disappeared, and arsenic detectives worked to uncover the truth, they besides had to sift done and debunk a large woody of mendacious accusation circulating publicly," helium added.

Hochman aboriginal echoed McDonnell's words and said, "In a concern wherever you don't person an eyewitness account, oregon we can't constituent to a video that shows the slayer sidesplitting someone, you person to spell done the precise rigorous and thorough probe to look astatine each the integer and forensic evidence. You person to talk with witnesses, often who are cooperative, and immoderate who are not cooperative, successful bid to get each the accusation necessary."

David Burke’s attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski, and Regina Peter issued the pursuing connection to BuzzFeed: "The existent grounds successful this lawsuit volition amusement that David Burke did not execution Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and helium was not the origin of her death. We volition vigorously support David’s innocence."