D4vd to face murder trial over the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Warning: this article contains distressing details A judge has ruled that D4vd will go on trial for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. It comes after a five-day preliminary hearing, in which Los Angeles prosecutors questioned a dozen witnesses and displayed photographic evidence as the teenager’s family attended court. D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke) has been accused by prosecutors of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and dismembering her body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online. On April 20, he was charged with her murder. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering and sexually abusing the teen, whose remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered to Burke last September. The singer is set to be charged on August 31 with the trial set to start within 90 days of that date. During the opening day of a preliminary hearing in the murder case on Tuesday (July 21), the court was shown a series of graphic and distressing photographs relating to the case, and Hernandez’s parents were in attendance at the hearing. On that day, a homicide detective testified that Burke had purchased a body bag, chainsaws, an ...