{"id":586180,"date":"2026-02-13T03:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/586180\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:51:23","slug":"d4vds-family-members-are-fighting-grand-jury-subpoenas-in-the-case-of-a-dead-teen-found-in-the-singers-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/586180\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd’s family members are fighting grand jury subpoenas in the case of a dead teen found in the singer’s car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The father, mother and brother of the singer known as D4vd are fighting Los Angeles County grand jury subpoenas related to the investigation into the death of a teenage girl discovered in the trunk<\/a> of his Tesla, arguing their due process rights are being violated, court records in Texas indicate.<\/p>\n

The 1st District Court of Appeals in Texas on Monday denied all three habeas corpus petitions to overturn a lower court ruling that required the family members, who live in Texas, to comply with subpoenas to testify in California. The appeals panel could take the matter up for another hearing on Feb. 24, according to the ruling.<\/p>\n

The development comes five months after the gruesome discovery of the remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez<\/a> in a Hollywood tow yard on Sept. 8. Although the Los Angeles Police Department has publicly declined to characterize the girl\u2019s death as a homicide, a court filing by an LAPD detective referred to the case as a murder investigation.<\/a><\/p>\n

In November, prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury, described at the time as an investigative grand jury, according to a source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case with the media.<\/p>\n

Since then, numerous other witnesses have been called into the grand jury room to testify in the investigation into Celeste\u2019s death. Among those is one of the managers of D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke. A friend of D4vd, Neo Langston, was arrested in Montana after ignoring a subpoena and was recently forced to return to L.A. to testify.<\/p>\n

In a Texas appeals court footnote, the court refers specifically to the singer\u2019s true name. The court states that the \u201cunderlying case\u201d is \u201cThe People of the State of California v. David Burke,\u201d pending in the 506th District Court of Waller County, Texas, with Judge Gary W. Chaney presiding. There is no public case with that name, but grand jury proceedings are confidential.<\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s father, Dawud, mother, Colleen, and brother, Caleb, reside in Texas, according to the records, and hence were served there. Lawyers for the trio could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

The grand jury investigation of Celeste\u2019s death was first exposed when a grand jury case number was included in that court order. In that document issued in November, LAPD Det. Joshua Byers of the Robbery-Homicide Division successfully persuaded a judge to bar the L.A. County medical examiner from divulging autopsy results and other details related to the girl\u2019s death that would otherwise be made public.<\/p>\n

It was Byers who characterized the case as \u201can investigation into murder,\u201d according to the document.<\/p>\n

Detectives spent months investigating the circumstances surrounding the girl\u2019s death, as well as her relationship with D4vd.<\/p>\n

His Tesla sat abandoned on a street in the Hollywood Hills for several weeks, and potentially months, before its removal. A tow yard worker noticed a foul smell coming from the Tesla and alerted the LAPD.<\/p>\n

Authorities uncovered her body the day after Celeste\u2019s 15th birthday. LAPD Capt. Scot Williams, who leads the Robbery-Homicide Division, said the girl had been \u201cdead for at least several weeks.\u201d Williams said the body had not been decapitated or frozen, as some news outlets have reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Detectives determined that the Tesla had been parked on Bluebird Avenue since late July \u2014 around the time D4vd began a national tour. The tour was canceled soon after the death investigation drew worldwide media attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father, mother and brother of the singer known as D4vd are fighting Los Angeles County grand jury…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6517,133949,161605,7975,129106,4446,50358,253848,5022,2961,166688,224,5337,9105,15164,90595,7829,358],"class_list":["post-586180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-case","tag-celeste","tag-court-filing","tag-d4vd","tag-david-anthony-burke","tag-death","tag-family-member","tag-grand-jury-subpoena","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-lapd-detective","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-month","tag-singer","tag-teenage-girl","tag-tesla","tag-texas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116061292846866279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}