Overview

• The Los Angeles County medical examiner identified the remains as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas using dental X-rays and a distinctive finger tattoo.
• Capt. Scot M. Williams said investigators know someone placed Rivas’s body in the Tesla’s front trunk registered to musician David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd.
• The Tesla sat on a Hollywood Hills street for weeks before it was ticketed, towed on September 5, and then searched on September 8 after a tow-yard worker reported a foul odor.
• Detectives have executed search warrants at residences linked to the vehicle and seized electronic devices for analysis, including items recovered on September 18 from a Hollywood rental.
• No arrests or charges have been announced, the precise time, cause, and manner of death remain pending, and D4vd has cooperated with police and canceled tour dates.