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Reports of Celeste Rivas-Hernandez's assemblage being frozen and decapitated erstwhile recovered successful D4vd's Tesla are not true, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday.
An LAPD skipper told ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC her assemblage was partially dismembered but not decapitated.
D4vd, whose existent sanction is David Anthony Burke, reportedly traveled to the Santa Barbara country sometime during Spring of this year, months earlier Rivas-Hernandez's assemblage was discovered successful his Tesla.
The crushed for the travel is inactive nether investigation, including if it is applicable to the case.
D4vd is considered a fishy successful the probe of the teenage girl's death, a root told KABC past week.
Security clasp placed connected Rivas-Hernandez case
On Friday, the Department of Medical Examiner received a tribunal order, initiated by the Los Angeles Police Department, to spot a information clasp connected the teenager's case, officials said.
The clasp means that nary records oregon details associated with the case, including the origin and mode of decease and the aesculapian examiner's report, tin beryllium released until the clasp is lifted.
The Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner connected Monday spoke retired against the signifier of placing information holds connected cases,
The ngo of the Department of Medical Examiner "is to person afloat transparency with the assemblage by providing accusation astir our cases to empower radical to marque changes that prevention lives," Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Odey Ukpo said successful a statement.
"The signifier of information holds is virtually unheard of successful different counties and has not been proven to amended outcomes successful the ineligible system," Ukpo added. "We are dedicated to serving our assemblage with afloat transparency; however, the instrumentality precludes america from doing truthful portion the tribunal bid remains successful this case."
The LAPD said successful a connection that they "sought to seal the records of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's probe into Celeste Rivas' decease lone to guarantee detectives from Robbery-Homicide Division learned of important accusation surrounding her decease earlier the media and the public. The bid was not sought to undermine transparency."
The photograph shows Celeste Rivas, 15, (left) and vocalist D4vd (right)
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What bash we cognize astir the case?
Rivas-Hernandez was reported missing from Lake Elsinore successful aboriginal 2024. She ran distant a fewer times and returned earlier her past runaway successful April 2024, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office. She reportedly called location astatine the extremity of May 2024 and had not been heard from since.
Authorities discovered her assemblage connected Sept. 8 aft responding to a tow gait adjacent Mansfield Avenue and Romaine Street successful Hollywood.
Officers went to analyse a foul odor coming from the impounded Tesla, which constabulary sources accidental had been astatine the batch for 2 days aft it was recovered abandoned connected a nationalist thoroughfare successful Hollywood.
Police located the assemblage wrong a container placed successful the beforehand trunk of the Tesla, LAPD sources said. The assemblage was dismembered and successful a authorities of decomposition, sources told ABC News.
The conveyance was registered to 20-year-old D4vd, who has much than 33 cardinal monthly listeners connected Spotify and implicit 3.6 cardinal followers connected TikTok, wherever his songs "Here with Me" and "Romantic Homicide" person gone viral.
D4vd was connected circuit erstwhile the assemblage was discovered and had a halt scheduled successful Los Angeles connected Sept. 20. The remainder of the circuit was abruptly canceled earlier that circuit halt amid the investigation.
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