Singer Charged with Teen's Murder, Evidence Tampering

0:00It's April 30th. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI, your daily dose of celebrity buzz. Prosecutors say 21-year-old singer David, real name David Burke, stabbed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez to death at his Hollywood. Hills home on April 23rd, 2025, then texted and called her phone to fake that she was still alive and cover his tracks. The day before the killing, they had a big fight about his relationships with other women, right before his debut album dropped. He ordered an uber to bring her from Lake Elsinore around 8.40 pm. She got there by 10.10 and by 10.30 he was already messaging her. Like nothing happened, even though she was gone. This hits hard because they met back in January 2022 when she was just 11 and prosecutors claim a sexual relationship started in November 2023 when she was 13 and he was 18. He's charged with murder, ongoing sexual abuse of a child under 14 and mutilating her

1:01remains, facing life without parole or possibly the death, penalty. New details from the prosecutor's brief dropped April 29th, show he drove his Tesla to Santa Barbara that night around 11.30 pm. Each evidence sent more text the next day than stopped contacting her phone after April 26th. Cops found her dismembered body head, torso, arms, legs and bags in his car's trunk on September 8th, super decomposed, with two fingers missing and its hand. They say he used an inflatable pool and a chainsaw. His lawyers insist he didn't cause her death and plan a strong defense at the preliminary hearing starting May 26th as this case keeps. Holding with heavy allegations on all sides.