D4vd's Cell Phone Contained 'child Pornography,' Prosecutor In L.a. Murder Case Says

A compartment telephone belonging to David Anthony Burke, amended known arsenic nan vocalist D4vd, contained “a important magnitude of kid pornography,” a charismatic said successful tribunal Thursday morning.

Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman made nan declare during a tribunal proceeding to schedule a preliminary proceeding connected execution charges successful nan sidesplitting of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The images were uncovered arsenic portion of a wide bid of hunt warrants executed connected Burke’s telephone and iCloud, Silverman said.

Burke’s attorneys person insisted he is guiltless and are demanding a preliminary proceeding statesman adjacent week, meaning grounds successful nan intimately followed lawsuit could go nationalist arsenic soon arsenic May 1. He appeared successful tribunal Thursday successful an orangish jailhouse jumpsuit and worked into tribunal pinch his hands successful his pockets.

A position proceeding was group for April 29.

Burke was arrested by Los Angeles constabulary past week and charged Monday pinch murder, continuous intersexual maltreatment of a kid and corpse mutilation, according to a criminal complaint. He has pleaded not guilty.

The vocalist allegedly began sexually abusing Hernandez successful September 2023, erstwhile she was conscionable 13. Burke’s attorneys person said nan lawsuit cannot guidelines up to scrutiny and pushed for nan contiguous preliminary hearing.

Hernandez was reported missing from her family’s Lake Elsinore vicinity 3 times successful 2024, and she was spotted astatine immoderate of D4vd’s concerts during that clip frame.

Prosecutors allege Hernandez was past seen astatine Burke’s Hollywood Hills residence connected April 23. She “threatened to expose his criminal behaviour and devastate his philharmonic career,” according to L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman, though nan charismatic has not answered questions astir whether Hernandez was going to study Burke to police.

Burke surged successful fame aft 1 of his tracks was included successful nan wildly celebrated video crippled “Fortnite,” and he has besides collaborated pinch artists for illustration 21 Savage. He was opening to circuit successful support of his debut album, “Withered,” erstwhile reports surfaced linking him to Hernandez’s death. He quickly canceled each shows.

The specifications of nan crime echoed immoderate of nan convulsive imagery associated pinch Burke’s songs. The Queens-born vocalist has appeared in a euphony video filled pinch convulsive imagery: a young female pinch an evident thorax coiled lies connected a furniture arsenic nan vocalist hovers complete her, blindfolded, his achromatic garment spattered pinch blood. In different video, “One More Dance,” D4vd drags a personification — who bears nan singer’s likeness — to a car, wherever a mates stuffs nan personification into nan trunk.

Hernandez’s severely decomposed assemblage was recovered successful nan trunk of a Tesla astatine Hollywood tow gait past September. An autopsy study made nationalist this week revealed she died from a brace of stab wounds to nan thorax and abdomen. When constabulary arrived connected nan segment they recovered Hernandez’s assemblage was “dismembered” and 2 of her fingers had been amputated, according to nan aesculapian examiner’s report.

Prosecutors charged Burke pinch execution pinch typical circumstances, including allegations that Hernandez was a witnesser to a crime — her ain intersexual maltreatment — and that Burke killed her for financial summation to protect his ascendant euphony career. If convicted arsenic charged, he faces life successful situation without nan anticipation of parole aliases nan decease penalty.