LA Grand Jury Probes Teen's Death in Singer's Tesla

Los Angeles authorities have convened an investigative grand jury to examine evidence in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose remains were discovered in September in the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd. The panel, which met for several days in mid-November, has heard testimony from witnesses but cannot issue indictments, officials said. No arrests have been made, and the Los Angeles Police Department continues to treat the case as a homicide investigation.

Rivas Hernandez's body was found on September 8, 2024, inside a black garbage bag in the impounded vehicle at a Hollywood tow yard. Workers had alerted police to a foul odor emanating from the car, which had been towed days earlier from a street in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood. The Tesla, a 2023 Model Y, had been parked there for at least three weeks and showed signs of damage, including dents and mud. Rivas Hernandez, who would have turned 15 the day before the discovery, had been reported missing from her home in Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles, in April 2024. She had run away from home multiple times in the preceding...