D4vd has finally been arrested in the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He was arrested at a home in the Hollywood Hills on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The 21-year-old “Romantic Homicide” singer is being held in the LA County Men’s Central jail without bond.
Sources told ABC News the arrest is based on evidence and probable cause that was developed over 7 months.
Los Angeles police said the case will be presented to the district attorney’s office in Los Angeles on Monday.
Burke was named as a suspect in the case in November 2025.
In September 2025, the decomposed body of a young girl was found inside the front trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to Burke.
The weight of the evidence pointed to Burke, who allegedly groomed Hernandez on Roblox when she was only 12 years old.
In a bizarre twist, the LAPD reportedly investigated a rumor that Burke mixed the dead teenager’s blood in red paint for his bloody shirt tour merchandise.
The button-down shirts splattered with fake blood were sold for $35 on his official site.
In a live-stream video, David is seen in the same living room holding the type of knife used by hunters to skin animals.
He abruptly removed the bloody shirts from his website days before the FBI executed a search warrant at his $20,000 a month rental property in the Hollywood Hills.
According to reports, authorities contacted fans who purchased the bloody shirts to test the merchandise for forensic evidence.
Hernandez reportedly lived with Burke at two rental properties about a mile apart in the Hollywood Hills. There are rumors that she was killed and her body dismembered at one of the rental properties.
There are also rumors that Hernandez’s remains were chopped up and stored in a freezer for weeks or months until Burke went on tour on August 31.
Burke and Hernandez were allegedly involved in a 3-year relationship that began when she was 12 and he was 18. Her mother reported her missing from the family home in Lake Elsinore, CA. in April 2024.
The teen was last seen online around January 2025. Family members last heard from her in July 2025.
The case took a turn when Burke’s alleged boyfriend, Neo Langston was arrested and forced to testify before a grand jury.
Investigators believe Neo is the man seen near the Tesla when it was parked for the final time before being towed by police in September.
No other arrests have been made.
