The physique of a lacking 14-year-old discovered within the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla in September was not frozen, nor was she decapitated, based on police, as they seemed to debunk a few of the rumors concerning the tragic teen’s loss of life.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s stays have been found within the automotive on Sept. 8 — at some point earlier than her fifteenth birthday — after it was impounded within the Hollywood Hills.
Final week, it was reported that her stays have been “partially frozen” and dismembered, leaving the LA County Medical Examiner struggling to find out her official reason for loss of life, sources instructed TMZ.
Police have now denied these stories.
“Celeste’s physique was not frozen. She was not decapitated. The entire frozen factor doesn’t even make sense. Her physique was within the automotive for weeks,” LAPD Captain and commanding officer of Theft-Murder Division, Scot Williams, instructed PEOPLE.
“Even when she had been frozen strong when she was put within the automotive, which there is no such thing as a proof to recommend she was, 5 or extra weeks within the trunk of a automotive in sweltering warmth in the midst of summer season wouldn’t have resulted in {a partially} frozen physique being found on September eighth,” Williams added.
Rivas Hernandez was first reported lacking from her house in Lake Elsinore, California, on April 5, 2024, based on the Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Singer D4vd, 20, whose actual identify is David Anthony Burke, was on tour on the time of the invention of the stays.
Right here’s the newest on the loss of life of the teenager woman present in rapper D4vd’s Tesla
He was recognized as a suspect in Rivas Hernandez’s loss of life final week.
The artist was allegedly “not cooperating” with investigators and is but to be interviewed by police, a legislation enforcement supply beforehand instructed PEOPLE.
D4vd’s reps beforehand insisted the singer was cooperating with authorities, NBC Los Angeles reported in September.
An official reason for loss of life has not been launched, as legislation enforcement is awaiting outcomes of a toxicology report from the health worker, the supply stated.
Authorities have additionally not decided when precisely Rivas Hernandez died.
