D4vd to Stand Trial for Murder and Dismemberment of 14-Year-Old in Hollywood Hills Case

A Los Angeles judge ruled that rapper D4vd (David Burke) must stand trial on charges including first-degree murder, lewd acts with a child, and dismembering the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Prosecutors presented grisly crime-scene evidence—her body was found in the front trunk of Burke’s Tesla with multiple stab wounds and dismemberment—along with allegations that he discussed terminating a pregnancy when she was 14 and possessed thousands of gigabytes of child-pornography data on iCloud. Burke remains jailed without bail; the defense rested without calling witnesses. A potential death-penalty case could be pursued if convicted.