D4vd appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday trying weary in an orange jail jumpsuit as a preliminary listening to in his homicide trial was delayed attributable to a mountain of recent proof, prosecutors stated.
The choice to delay the listening to till the top of June got here after horrifying new particulars emerged final month within the case of his alleged mutilation of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas.
Prosecutors revealed Tuesday that that they’ve one other batch of proof to evaluation, together with lab studies, police studies, images, quite a few movies, arrest studies and forensic proof.
D4vd, actual identify David Burke, appeared exhausted in court docket and disillusioned on the listening to being delayed as he stared down Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom Decide Charlaine Olmedo
When requested if he agreed to the brand new June 29 date, he replied: “Sure, your honor.”
Final month, court docket paperwork the singer’s authorized group argued to have sealed revealed disturbing accusations from prosecutors that he groomed and finally mutilated Rivas with a chainsaw.
D4vd, actual identify David Burke, ordered an Uber to ship Rivas from her household house in Lake Elsinore to his Hollywood Hills house on the night time of April 23, 2025, in keeping with the paperwork obtained by The California Submit.
He then stabbed her and stood by whereas she bled to demise, prosecutors stated.
Burke allegedly ordered a shovel from House Depot the next day and had it delivered to his house by Postmates. A few week later, he ordered two chainsaws from Amazon that had been delivered to his house, the paperwork present, and on Could 5 he allegedly ordered a physique bag, heavy-duty laundry luggage and a blue inflatable pool.
From there, investigators say, Burke “took horrifying measures to destroy and discard the sufferer’s physique.”
Burke is accused of inserting Rivas’ physique into the blue inflatable pool to stop her blood from making a multitude on his storage ground and used the chainsaw and presumably different instruments to chop off her limbs, in keeping with the paperwork.
Burke additionally allegedly amputated Rivas’ left ring and pinky fingers as a result of her ring finger bore a tattoo of his identify — and people fingers had been by no means recovered, in keeping with the paperwork.
Rivas’ household legal professional, Patrick Steinfeld, described informing her household of the information the “most troublesome factor” he’s ever needed to do in 37 years as a lawyer.
“Final night time I had the heartbreaking accountability of informing the Rivas Hernandez household of the horrifying allegations submitted in court docket yesterday that David Anthony Burke allegedly stabbed Celeste, ‘stood by whereas she bled’ to demise, used a chainsaw to chop off her limbs, and acquired a ‘burn cage’ with the plan to ‘incinerate the proof,’ Steinfeld stated in a press release.
Rivas’ physique was found in Burke’s Tesla in a Hollywood Hills impound lot final September.
On April 16, he was arrested after LAPD officers swooped in on a Hollywood Hills house the singer was staying in.
Unique video footage obtained by the Submit confirmed the singer along with his palms behind his again as he’s led down a residential avenue within the Hollywood Hills.
A neighbor instructed the Submit she witnessed “so many cops” on the road simply earlier than the singer was taken into custody. One officer was on a loudspeaker outdoors the house shouting “Give up!,” in keeping with the neighbor.
LA County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman has stated that the demise penalty continues to be on the desk for the singer.
