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Singer D4vd has been charged with the homicide of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was discovered useless final 12 months.
The 21-year-old had been below investigation for months and was final week arrested after Hernandez’s stays had been present in a Tesla registered to him in September.
Los Angeles County prosecutors formally charged the singer, whose authorized title is David Anthony Burke, with homicide on Monday.
He has additionally been charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a person below 14 and mutilating a physique within the killing of Hernandez.
{The teenager}’s reason behind demise stays unknown. She was final seen by her household in April 2024, when she went lacking from her hometown of Lake Elsinore. The then-13-year-old had mentioned she was going to observe a film.
Court docket paperwork present authorities had given her age as 14 when she was killed, after she was recognized by forensics.
The Los Angeles district lawyer held a press convention on Monday, by which they laid out the fees and displayed the singer’s mugshot.
The district lawyer, Nathan Hochman, described it as a ‘brutal and horrific homicide’ when saying the fees, for which they will search the demise penalty.
The district lawyer mentioned: ‘A mother or father’s nightmare is a state of affairs the place your daughter goes out one evening and by no means comes again.’
The homicide fees additionally embrace particular circumstances: mendacity in wait, committing crime for monetary achieve and murdering the witness in an investigation.
Throughout the press convention, the LA police chief Jim McDonnell additionally addressed the criticism for the lack of know-how since Hernandez was discovered seven months in the past.
McDonnell mentioned the situation she was present in and the substantial time between her demise and her discovery meant that they had misplaced essential proof and had been delayed in figuring out a reason behind demise.
‘I need to be clear about one thing. My obligation is to not gasoline hypothesis. It’s to ship justice, and that requires endurance and self-discipline on all people’s half,’ he mentioned.
‘This investigation was pushed by a single goal to safe justice for Celeste Rivas and for many who liked her. We had to make certain that nothing we did or mentioned would ever jeopardise this case.’
It comes after Hernandez’s household broke their silence on D4vd’s arrest. Her father, Jesus Rivas, mentioned, ‘Thank God … justice for Celeste,’ in response to a press release household lawyer Patrick Steinfeld offered to TMZ.
D4vd’s attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter mentioned they may ‘vigorously defend’ their consumer’s innocence, following his arrest.
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