Singer D4vd pleads not guilty to murder of 14-year-old girl

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the 21-year-old D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body

LAPD chief Jim McDonnell walks past an image of Celeste Rivas Hernandez in Los Angeles after a press conference regarding the case of singer D4vd, who was charged on suspicion of killing the 14-year-old (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

US singer D4vd has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his apparently abandoned Tesla.

The charges revealed key details and were among the first concrete public moves made in a grisly and horrific case that had been under a largely secret investigation in the seven months since the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found.