TW: Prosecutors reveal horrifying details in the murder case involving D4vd

April 30

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D4vd allegedly stabbed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas to death in his home on April 23, 2025.
He later dismembered her body with a chainsaw in a blue inflatable kiddie pool in his garage before stowing her remains in his Tesla and lying to friends who noticed the strong smell of decay.

That’s the damning narrative LA prosecutors laid out over nine pages of a preliminary hearing brief and released to the public over the objection of D4vd’s defense team.

The surveillance video shows the singer driving his Tesla on July 29, 2025, before he parked it around the corner from his rental house and left on a concert tour.

The Tesla was later towed and impounded, with investigators finding 14-year-old Celeste’s dismembered and badly decomposed remains in the front truck on September 8, 2025.

“For several weeks, or possibly months, defendants left the victim’s body to decompose inside his Tesla. He lied to friends, business associates, others who noticed the strong smell of decay in and around his home and vehicle,” the blockbuster brief.

The new filing alleges the singer and Rivas “engaged in an argument described in their text messages” on the night before she was last seen alive.
“The messages reveal the victim’s jealousy over D4vd’s relationships with other women, as D4vd led her to believe they had a future together,”
Rivas purportedly became “extremely upset and threatened to disclose damaging information about her relationship with D4vd to end his career and destroy his life,” prosecutors claim.

D4vd sent an Uber to pick Rivas up on April 23, 2025, the night she allegedly was murdered.
He reportedly texted with Rivas during her ride.
The driver dropped her off at the singer’s address around 10:10 p.m.
D4vd then sent text messages to Rivas at 10:30 p.m., inquiring where she was. “The people contend this was part of defendant’s premeditated plan to cover up the murder, as she was already dead by this time,” the filing reads.

“Knowing he had to silence the victim before she ruined his music career as she had threatened, very soon after her arrival at his home, D4vd stabbed the victim to death multiple times and stood by while she bled out.”

Prosecutors allege the singer left his home at 11:30 p.m. and texted and called Rivas’ phone, asking where she was to set up his defense.

D4vd allegedly drove to an area near Lake Cachuma to “dispose of her property,” returning home the next morning to attend a radio interview.
He later ordered a shovel from Home Depot, delivered on April 24, 2025, and two chainsaws, a body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool, delivered by Amazon in early May, the filing claims. He also ordered a “burn cage”.

He allegedly used the chainsaw to dismember Rivas in his garage, using the blue pool “to prevent her blood from spilling” on the floor.

Blue plastic fragments found embedded in Rivas’ remains were later matched to the inflatable pool by the LAPD’s forensic laboratory, prosecutors say. D4vd amputated Rivas’ left ring finger because it contained a tattoo of his name.

When detectives searched D4vd’s rental home after Rivas’ remains were found, blood samples found in the garage “matched the victim’s unique genetic profile,” the filing states.