D4vd murder case: Singer to face key hearing on charges he killed, dismembered teen - BERITAJA

A preliminary proceeding the execution lawsuit against David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old vocalist amended known arsenic D4vd, will spell guardant astatine the extremity of June, mounting a timeline for erstwhile much elaborate grounds about the gruesome execution and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez will go public.

Burke — who prosecutors opportunity sexually abused the teen for a twelvemonth earlier stabbing her to decease and mutilating her corpse past twelvemonth — will look the proceeding connected June 29, attorneys said during a little proceeding Tuesday morning.

After the singer’s apprehension successful April, his ineligible squad pushed for an contiguous preliminary proceeding — wherever a judge determines if prosecutors person capable grounds to bring a lawsuit to proceedings — but they backed disconnected aft prosecutors began turning complete what they person described arsenic a monolithic magnitude of integer grounds linking Burke to the teenager’s sadistic slaying. Burke has pleaded not blameworthy successful the case.

The proceeding is expected to past astatine slightest 5 days. A position convention proceeding will return spot connected June 17.

Questions about the singer’s relationship to Hernandez’s grisly extremity person circled since past summer, ever since her severely decomposed and dismembered assemblage was recovered successful the trunk of a Tesla linked to Burke. Late past month, prosecutors revenge a nine-page little laying retired what they judge to beryllium Hernandez’s last moments and Burke’s alleged horrific actions aft her death.

In the filing, prosecutors said Burke stabbed Hernandez to decease wrong a Hollywood Hills residence aft she threatened to spell nationalist about the ascendant singer’s continual intersexual abuse. After sidesplitting her, Burke ordered a chainsaw, a “burn cage,” a shovel and different implements he utilized to dismember her remains successful his garage, prosecutors alleged past week.

The mobility besides laid retired the melodramatic steps Burke went to successful bid to proceed his narration pinch the teen. In February 2024, Hernandez was reported missing to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department by her parents, who were concerned about her engagement pinch Burke, according to the filing. Hernandez went location and had her telephone taken away, but Burke allegedly paid a inferior precocious schoolhouse student $1,000 to springiness her a caller instrumentality truthful they could enactment successful touch.

Prosecutors besides said they recovered images of Hernandez naked and performing activity acts connected Burke’s phone, according to the document. Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman said successful tribunal past period that hunt warrants turned up “a important magnitude of kid pornography” connected Burke’s devices.

Burke’s lawyers person not commented connected their defense strategy.