{"id":762789,"date":"2026-04-30T03:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:21:18","slug":"d4vd-ordered-chainsaws-from-amazon-to-dismember-teen-da-says-in-gruesome-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762789\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd Ordered Chainsaws From Amazon To Dismember Teen, DA Says In Gruesome Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWARNING: This article contains graphic & disturbing details of an alleged murder<\/a> & sexual abuse of a minor. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tD4vd<\/a>\u2018s preliminary hearing in downtown LA today for the alleged murder and sexual abuse of teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fleeting. However, a grisly filing from prosecutors Wednesday detailing the \u2018Romantic Homicide\u2019 singer\u2019s \u201chorrifying\u201d crimes<\/a> paints a very vivid and permanent portrait of butchery. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKnowing he had to silence the victim before she ruined his music career as she had threatened, very soon after her arrival at his home, defendant stabbed the victim to death multiple times and stood by while she bled out,\u201d the brief from the District Attorney\u2019s office claims of 21-year-old D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke) killing then-14-year-old Hernandez on April 23, 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tPreviously, contacted by Riverside police and the LA County Sheriff\u2019s department and under investigation, D4vd repeatedly denied to authorities he knew Hernandez was a minor or that he had been pursuing her since she was 11-years-old.The prosecution believes D4vd killed Hernandez last year because that night because of her texted jealous threats \u201cto end his career and destroy his life\u201d over their relationship and his involvement with others.<\/p>\n

\n\tReported missing by her Riverside parents over a year ago after catching an Uber to the singer\u2019s house, the teen\u2019s rotting, decomposed and dismembered body was finally discovered on September 8, 2025 in an impounded Tesla registered in D4vd\u2019s name. Away on tour at the time the car was opened, the TikTok star promised to work with police in their investigation. On September 16, 2025, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Department positively identified the body from dental records as belonging to the victim,\u201d today\u2019s filing states of just how hacked-up and putrified Hernandez\u2019s remains were. <\/p>\n

\n\tD4vd was arrested by the LAPD at his residence on April 16<\/a>\u00a0and taken into custody in DTLA where he remains without bail.\u00a0Potentially facing the death penalty or at least life beind bars, the not guilty pleading<\/a> D4vd has been charged with\u00a0first-degree murder and continuous sexual abuse.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWith those charges at the fore, the nine-page filing against D4vd today also puts paid to Elmore Leonard<\/a>\u2018s notion that it\u2019s many criminals\u2019 sheer stupidity that comes to bite them in the end. In this case, D4vd seems to have left a blatant and easily discovered digital trail that makes any alibi, like leaving messages on Hernandez\u2019s phone after she was dead, crumble. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTellingly, defendant \u2026purchased tools to carry out his plot to dismember and dispose of the victim\u2019s body,\u201d the DA\u2019s filing outlines. \u201cOn April 24, 2025, defendant ordered a shovel from Home Depot that was delivered to his home from Postmates,\u201d they add, compiling a timeline. \u201cOn May 1, 2025, defendant ordered, and subsequently Amazon<\/a> delivered, two chainsaws to his home. On May 5, 2025, defendant ordered, and Amazon subsequently delivered, a body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool to his home. He made these purchases under the fake name Victoria Mendez.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t Along with a series of late night and surveillance camera documented trips to a somewhat isolated area of Santa Barbara County and eventually leaving his car abandoned just up the street from his house, the filng says that \u201con July 7, 2025, defendant ordered, and subsequently Amazon delivered, a bum cage to his home under the same fake name as part of his plan to incinerate evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt gets worse.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMoreover, defendant took horrifying measures to destroy and discard the victim\u2019s body,\u201d the document\u2019s ultimately unsuccessful argument against any continuance adds. \u201cAfter placing her body into the blue inflatable pool to prevent her blood from spilling onto his garage floor, defendant used a chainsaw and perhaps other tools to cut off her limbs.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe filing from Deputy DA Beth Silverman and DA Nathan Hochman<\/a> goes on to reveal how that pool became pivotal to the case: \u201cSmall blue plastic fragments were found embedded in the victim\u2019s remains, which were collected by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Department. The fragments were analyzed by the LAPD<\/a>\u2018s Forensic Science Division, Trace Analysis Unit. An expert was able to make a physical fit match from the blue fragments to the blue inflatable pool purchased by defendant in May 2025. In order to distance himself from the victim, he amputated her left ring and pinky fingers because her ring finger contained a tattoo of his name. Her fingers have not been recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe late Celeste Rivas Hernandez is shown during an April 20, 2026 briefing by LA County DA on the case against singer D4vd <\/p>\n

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\n\tAllowing D4vd\u2019s defense lawyers \u00a0Blair Berk and Marilyn Bednarski more time to look at the accumulated evidence, including sexual images of Hernandez found on their client\u2019s phone, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo\u00a0has ordered a preliminary hearing in the case for May 26. Before that, a status hearing will take place at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on May 12. <\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Olmedo, who oversaw the rape trials <\/a>of now incarcerated\u00a0 That \u201970s Show star Danny Masterson<\/a>, denied the defense\u2019s desire to have today\u2019s graphic filing from the DA\u2019s office sealed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: This article contains graphic & disturbing details of an alleged murder & sexual abuse of a minor.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2431,7975,67913,313449,171,4530,9620,27173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-762789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-d4vd","10":"tag-danny-masterson","11":"tag-elmore-leonard","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-lapd","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-nathan-hochman","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116491511474375745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762789","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=762789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}