Overview
- Law enforcement sources say the singer, legally David Anthony Burke, is being treated as a suspect in the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, though no arrest has been made.
- Officials have deferred the cause and manner of death pending further testing, with toxicology and other forensic results described as pivotal to the case.
- Rivas Hernandez’s dismembered remains were found Sept. 8 in a bag inside the front trunk of a Tesla registered to the artist after the car was towed from a Hollywood street to an impound lot.
- Investigators believe the teen likely died in the spring and that dismemberment and disposal probably involved more than one person, according to sources.
- The LAPD has not publicly confirmed the suspect designation, and accounts differ on whether the singer has cooperated as searches, canceled tour dates, and paused promotion continue.