What to Know
- A decomposed body found Sept. 8 in the front trunk of a Tesla impounded at a Los Angeles tow yard was identified as 15-year-old Lake Elsinore girl Celeste Rivas.
- The Tesla was registered to singer D4vd, whose representative said he is cooperating with the investigation.
- The car was impounded after someone reported it was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills, where neighbors say it had been parked for more than a month.
- Police searched a Hollywood Hills home Wednesday in connection with the death investigation.
- On Friday, the Houston artist’s remaining U.S. tour dates, including a stop in Los Angeles, were canceled.
Singer and social media sensation D4vd has canceled his remaining U.S. tour dates, including a show scheduled for this weekend in Los Angeles, as the investigation continues into the decomposed body of a 15-year-old girl found in his impounded Tesla.
The “Romantic Homicide” singer’s “Withered” world tour, which began Aug. 5, was to include shows this week in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Saturday in Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. The Portland show went on as planned, but the Seattle concert scheduled for Wednesday night was canceled earlier this week and remaining U.S. tour dates in San Francisco and Los Angeles were called off Friday.
Details about the status of upcoming performances in Europe were not immediately available.
D4vd had been on tour since Aug. 5.
The decomposed body of a girl was found Sept. 8 after workers at Hollywood Tow reported a strong odor coming from the Tesla registered to the singer. Officers opened the front trunk, also known as a frunk, and found the remains in a bag, police said.
Law enforcement sources told NBC News that the remains were not intact.
At the time, D4vd’s representative said he is cooperating with authorities in their investigation.
D4vd performs at Gobi Tent during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 20, 2025, in Indio, California. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella)
“D4vd has been informed about what’s happened. And, although he is still out on tour, he is fully cooperating with the authorities,” a spokesperson for the singer said after the body was discovered.
The singer’s tour was in Minneapolis at the time of the body’s discovery with a stop in Kansas City the next day, according to his Instagram profile. The car was impounded after someone reported it was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills, where neighbors say it had been parked for more than a month.
NBC Los Angeles reached out again this week to D4vd’s publicist and attorney for comment.
The girl, 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, was identified this week through forensics. Law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles that investigators are waiting on a variety of forensics that might help explain how Rivas died and determine a time of death.
A decomposed body found in singer D4vd’s Tesla has been identified. Authorities confirmed to NBC News on Sept. 17 that the remains are of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, who had previously been reported missing from Lake Elsinore, Calif.
The case was being treated as a death investigation, the LAPD said.
“At this time, the LAPD does not have a crime classification from the coroner as to the mode or manner of death,” the agency said Wednesday after the medical examiner’s identification of the body. “Thus, we do not have any suspect information at this time.”
Rivas was last seen April 5, 2024, in the western Riverside County community. Details about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance were not immediately available.
TMZ reported that the girl’s mother said a description provided by police of the body, which included a distinctive tattoo, matched her daughter’s appearance. The medical examiner revealed earlier that the girl had the letters “Shhh” tattooed on her right index finger.
A Hollywood Hills house was searched Wednesday night in connection with the discovery of a 15-year-old girl’s decomposed body inside a Tesla owned by singer D4vd, police tell NBC Los Angeles.
The LAPD searched the home hours after authorities announced the body, found in the front trunk of a Houston artist’s impounded Tesla at a Los Angeles tow yard, was identified by the county medical examiner as a teen who disappeared in the Lake Elsinore area last year.
It was not immediately clear how the house, not far from the location where the Tesla registered to D4vd was reported abandoned earlier this month, is connected to the death investigation.
Celeste’s brother told NBC Los Angeles Wednesday that family members, who still live in Lake Elsinore, are grieving and were aware that the girl knew singer D4vd. Matthew Rivas said when his sister disappeared, she was on her way to see a movie with him, but never returned.
Four law enforcement sources familiar with the death investigation told NBC News that investigators were seeking items from the property, including any digital devices that would have security recordings or connect the girl to the location as they seek to find what connection or relationship, if any, there was to D4vd.
TMZ reported that detectives emerged from the house with a computer and several evidence bags.
D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, is a singer-songwriter who rose to fame with viral hits on Tiktok, where he has 3.6 million followers. That success led to signings with Darkroom and Interscope Records.
Born in Queens, New York, Burke moved to Texas in his early teens and gained a following on YouTube playing Fortnite and other online games. He started creating original music, some of which went viral on TikTok.
He released his debut album “Withered” in April and embarked on a world tour.
In an interview on the “Zach Sang Show,” D4vd said the 4 substituted for the a in his name was for search-engine optimization and a representation of four cinematic universes with various characters that he was creating.
