Los Angeles detectives are retracing the ultimate days of a teenage lacking lady whose decomposing physique was discovered contained in the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla.
Celeste Rivas was reported lacking in 2024 from the Inland Empire, and her whereabouts since then stay a thriller.
Her physique was present in a car at Hollywood Tow on Sept. 8 after it was impounded. Somebody seen a foul odor coming from the car.
Whereas the medical expert listed her age as 15, she was discovered a day after her fifteenth birthday and Los Angeles police officers have described her physique as decomposed, suggesting she died whereas she nonetheless 14.
Police say the automotive was towed from the realm round a Hollywood Hills house rented by D4vd.
Detectives served a search warrant Wednesday night at a house in an upscale neighborhood on Doheny Drive, north of Sundown Boulevard. Legislation enforcement sources with data of the case however not approved to talk publicly mentioned the detectives retrieved varied objects, together with electronics and computer systems.
It’s unclear when the lady died and the way lengthy her physique was within the trunk. The automotive had a Texas license plate, and the stays had been contained in a bag, in line with a legislation enforcement supply.
Authorities have mentioned D4vd, 20, whose authorized identify is David Anthony Burke, is cooperating with investigators. Representatives for the musician didn’t reply to requests for remark because the musician has canceled a latest live performance on his nationwide tour.
Gisel Vera, who recognized herself as a relative of Celeste and helped begin a GoFundMe web page to boost funds for her funeral, advised The Occasions the household had no instant touch upon the case.
Police haven’t mentioned what connection — if any — Burke needed to Rivas. Nonetheless, a number of images have emerged on-line and in some publications showing to point out the 2 collectively. The Occasions couldn’t independently verify these images.
A neighbor within the Hollywood Hills advised KABC-TV that he had seen the Tesla parked on the road and located it a bit suspicious.
“It’s a bit bizarre to see a automotive that I haven’t seen right here for a very long time,” he advised the station. “It had an enormous dent on it, had a Texas plate on it. So, all a bit odd, however on the identical time, , individuals might be hanging out with associates for a very long time.”
Burke was raised in Houston and has collaborated with musicians Kali Uchis, Stray Children’ Hyunjin, Laufey and 21 Savage. He additionally created an anthem for the sport “Fortnite.”
Burke has been on a nationwide tour selling his debut album, “Withered,” since early August. He carried out in Boston, Montreal and Toronto in late August and in early September had stops in Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis.
The U.S. leg of the tour is slated to finish in Los Angeles this month. The nationwide tour promoter Goldenvoice has not responded to requests for remark and the tour is ready to renew in Europe in October.
