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(NewsNation) — Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s assemblage was “likely” successful R&B singer’s D4vd’s Tesla weeks earlier she was found, the Los Angeles Police Department told People Magazine.
LAPD Captain and Commanding Officer Scot M. Williams told the outlet determination are inactive questions related to her death, "we cognize for definite that Celeste Rivas Hernandez died and idiosyncratic placed her assemblage successful the beforehand trunk country of David Burke's (d4vd's ineligible name) Tesla."
"We cognize that the Tesla had been parked astatine the determination from which it was towed for respective weeks, truthful it is precise apt Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been dormant for respective weeks anterior to her assemblage being discovered," Williams said.
Celeste's assemblage was recovered successful the trunk of a Tesla Model X registered to Burke connected Sept. 8. She had been missing since April 2024, erstwhile she was conscionable 13.
Singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez
D4vd, R&B singer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 18: d4vd performs onstage astatine Made connected YouTube astatine Pier 57 connected September 18, 2024 successful New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Made connected YouTube 2024)
D4vd's Tesla (Image: SF Investigates)
TMZ obtained surveillance video believed to amusement Celeste walking hastily successful Lake Elsinore, Calif., her hometown, aboriginal March 19, 2024 — astir the play erstwhile the teen was known to beryllium moving away.
D4vd’s Tesla was abandoned, neighbors say
Private researcher Steve Fischer obtained the archetypal ailment report, conveyance impound study and photos of D4vd’s Tesla resulting from erstwhile it was declared abandoned. He told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield connected Sept. 26 that neighbors noticed the car had been parked successful the aforesaid spot for a while.
Fischer told NewsNation that erstwhile helium spoke to neighbors of D4vd, 1 of them noted that they were “certain” the car had been determination for “over a month.”
To beryllium towed from a thoroughfare wherever determination were nary parking restrictions, “It had to beryllium determination rather a while,” Fischer added.
"The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has not determined a origin oregon manner of her death, truthful we don't cognize for definite if anyone has immoderate transgression culpability for her decease beyond the concealment of her dormant body," Williams said.
D4vd moves retired of Hollywood Hills location
Movers arrived at D4vd’s Hollywood Hills residence connected Wednesday arsenic authorities analyse the decease of Celeste.
People could beryllium seen moving boxes from the home as good arsenic a reddish Tesla registered to the singer’s manager, John Marshal, who leased the house, according to NewsNation’s Los Angeles affiliate KTLA.
D4vd’s reported transportation to Celeste Rivas Hernandez
The “Romantic Homicide” singer allegedly had a casket connected the stage while helium was performing, and helium released a euphony video successful February, “One More Dance,” which featured a assemblage being dragged and enactment into a trunk.
In the video, D4vd is playing some the slayer and the victim.
Friends of D4vd, 20, believed the 15-year-old was his college-aged girlfriend, NewsNation learned.
TMZ elder quality newsman Charlie Neff told “Banfield” connected Thursday that D4vd’s friends successful the Los Angeles euphony country were shocked to perceive that Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s decomposing assemblage was discovered wrong his trunk.
They told Neff that Burke is simply a “very gentle person,” adding they thought the information that it was his car “was conscionable highly disturbing and confusing.”
NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield and Zach Kaplan contributed to this report
