Prosecutors Trace 14-Year-Old's Final Texts to D4vd's Door in Day 5 Murder Hearing
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Updated · PBS NewsHour · Jul 27
Prosecutors Trace 14-Year-Old's Final Texts to D4vd's Door in Day 5 Murder Hearing
3 articles · Updated · PBS NewsHour · Jul 27
Summary
10 a.m. texts shown Monday traced Celeste Rivas Hernandez's last known movements to an Uber ride to D4vd's Hollywood home, ending with: "i'm almost there open ur door if ur home."
Prosecutors say her phone went permanently silent on arrival and that David Burke, 21, then stabbed her, later sending follow-up messages as cover after the killing.
Defense lawyers countered that no witness or camera captured her entering the house or Burke being there, and highlighted her repeated threats plus seven requests to visit before he agreed.
The hearing's final witness finished testifying as Judge Charlaine Olmedo weighs whether Burke will stand trial on murder, child sexual abuse and mutilation charges; he has pleaded not guilty.
Earlier testimony tied apparent blood in Burke's garage to her DNA, and her body was found nearly five months later in a Tesla registered to him.