SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – According to a court filing today, singer D4vd drove to Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County to rid evidence linking him to the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
On Monday, David Anthony Burke – known by his stage name D4vd – was charged with murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains. Prosecutors on Wednesday say Burke began a sexual relationship with Hernandez when she was 13 and he was 18.
The court filing claims that on the night of April 23, 2025, Burke sent a ride share car to pick Hernandez from her home in Lake Elsinore to bring her to his Hollywood Hills home. Two messages were exchanged between the two before Hernandez’s phone went completely silent…