{"id":19324,"date":"2026-04-17T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:38:03","slug":"rapper-d4vd-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murdering-14-year-old-girl-crime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=19324","title":{"rendered":"Rapper d4vd arrested on suspicion of murdering 14-year-old girl | Crime News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Arrest comes after police found the body of Celeste Rivas in a car registered to the musician last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"byline byline--single-avatar\">\n<div class=\"avatars-container\">\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;quality=80 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 96px) 96px, 96px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 17 Apr 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">17 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>American rapper David Anthony Burke, known by his stage name d4vd, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in a car registered to him.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police took the 21-year-old singer into custody on Thursday \u201cfor the murder of Celeste Rivas\u201d, the city\u2019s police department said in a statement. He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Burke\u2019s arrest comes seven months after police uncovered Rivas\u2019s badly decomposed body in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered in his name.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found two black bags in the vehicle \u2013 one holding a decomposed head and torso and the other containing other body parts, according to a court filing. An autopsy revealed that Rivas \u201cappeared to have been deceased inside the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found\u201d. The discovery occurred one day before Rivas would have turned 15.<\/p>\n<p>The LA County District Attorney\u2019s office will review the case against Burke on Monday for formal charges, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Burke\u2019s lawyers issued a statement saying they would \u201cvigorously defend\u201d his \u201cinnocence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us be clear \u2013 the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,\u201d lawyers Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement quoted by NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Burke, from Queens, New York, shot to internet fame in 2022 when his Romantic Homicide became a breakout hit on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the musician cancelled the last part of his US and European tours amid growing fallout from the investigation into Rivas\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest comes after police found the body of Celeste Rivas in a car registered to the musician last year. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 American rapper David Anthony Burke, known by his stage name d4vd, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in a car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}