US singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl who went missing last year.
The 21-year-old musician had been under investigation by a grand jury after the remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found in a car registered to him in September.
Los Angeles police said the Houston-born singer – whose legal name is David Anthony Burke – was being held without bail on suspicion of murder.
The decomposed remains of Ms Hernandez were discovered in a Tesla registered to D4vd on 8 September – the day after she would have turned 15 – when police were called to a Hollywood tow yard because of reports of a foul smell coming from the vehicle.
The vehicle had been towed from the Hollywood Hills, where it appeared to have been abandoned.
Inside the car, investigators found a cadaver bag containing a head and torso, and a second bag containing dismembered body parts, according to court documents, although the cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
Ms Hernandez, who was identified after forensic examinations, had been reported missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore – about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles – since 2024.
Court documents show authorities had given her age as 14 when she was killed.
In a statement, D4vd’s lawyers vowed to “vigorously defend” his innocence, adding: “Let us be clear – the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death.”
D4vd had been on tour when the body was discovered, and a spokesperson for the artist said at the time he was “fully cooperating with the authorities”.
The singer, who went viral on TikTok in 2022 with the hit Romantic Homicide, subsequently cancelled his world tour.
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