Overview

• Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 15, was discovered on Sept. 8 in the front trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer David Anthony Burke (d4vd) after tow‑yard workers reported a foul odor.
• Police say parking records show the car sat for weeks before being towed — marked Aug. 27, ticketed Sept. 3 and impounded Sept. 5 — making it very likely she had been dead for several weeks before discovery.
• The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has deferred the cause and manner of death pending additional testing, and the death certificate notes Rivas was not pregnant in the past year.
• LAPD’s Robbery‑Homicide Division executed a search warrant at a Hollywood Hills residence linked to the vehicle and seized items for analysis; no arrests have been made and Burke has not been publicly named a suspect.
• The case remains a death investigation as toxicology and other lab work proceed, and the artist’s remaining tour dates and planned promotional activities have been canceled or paused.