Rapper D4vd Charged in Teen's Murder

0:00It's April 21st, music news today starts now, AI powered and always on beat. Rapper David, real name David Anthony Burke, just got hit with first-degree murder charges in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her badly decomposed remains turned up in the trunk of his Tesla last September, after she vanished from his Hollywood Hill spot. He's looking at the death penalty or life without parole, but his team entered a not guilty plea for him in court. Burke's powered on special circumstances, like lying in wait, killing for financial gain to save his music career and silencing a witness tie to. His alleged sexual acts with a minor, they say she showed up at his place one night and was never seen alive again. The charges also mention body mutilation. The district attorney called it every parent's worst nightmare, and Celeste's family is pushing hard to honor her memory through the trial. Burke's lawyers fired back, insisting the real evidence proves he didn't kill her and wasn't behind her death.

1:01They planned to fight this aggressively. This all stems from her going missing back in April 2024. Cops held off calling it a homicide into the medical examiner weighed in, and Burke was cooperating at first before the heat turned up. He scrapped his US tour and ditched the Lux album plans amid the probe. Now the case heads deeper into the courts, with big questions on the evidence and those special charges. Keep an eye on how the defense unpacks this, could shake up everything we thought we knew.