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April 10 - 16, 2026

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FILE - A nomadic girl gives water to her sister as they pause with their cattle on the outskirts of Jammu along the Jammu–Srinagar highway in Jammu, India, Monday, April 13, 2026, as they continue their seasonal migration between mountain pastures and the plains. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

FILE - Sonogram images of a baby lie among the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit a week ago in an Israeli airstrike, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - A woman reacts at the site of a damaged residential building after it was struck by a projectile fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - New young German police officer trainees throw their hats in the air after taking their oath of service and officially entering the service for security, law and democracy in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, FIle)

FILE - Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace get arrested after blocking traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and opposing U.S. weapons support on Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

FILE - Fatou, the oldest of Berlin's zoo and also believed to be the world's oldest gorilla, arrives at its enclosure to celebrate her 69th birthday in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

FILE - People react in the streets after the announcement of partial results of the Hungarian parliamentary in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

FILE - Two armchairs sit at an abandoned railway crossing used as a checkpoint by the Assad regime's Syrian army, east of Homs, Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

FILE - People take part in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel, File)

FILE - Bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, bloom in Hallerbos Forest, near Helle, south of Brussels, Belgium Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

FILE - People wait for Pope Leo XIV in Bamenda, Cameroon, Thursday, April 16, 2026, on the fourth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer boards a plane at the airport in Doha, Qatar, Friday, April 10, 2026 after his three day visit to the Gulf region.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

FILE - A woman plays volleyball at Pardisan Park in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

FILE - Houston Astros relief pitcher Bryan King warms up before facing the Seattle Mariners as fan turn their phone lights on during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

FILE - US flag symbol merchandise and other rhinestone-studded items are displayed at the California Republican Party Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

FILE - President Donald Trump and Hunter Campbell attend UFC 327 at Kaseya Center, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

FILE - A pilgrim kisses her sick grandfather, Ramon Gamboa, after a priest blessed him at his home during the Quasimodo Feast, a procession held the Sunday following Easter, Colina, Chile, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, FIle)

FILE - Patient Saidal Altaher, aged two months, receives treatment for malnutrition at the paediatric hospital stabilization center in Port Sudan, Sudan, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

FILE - Mourners pray over the six coffins of members of the Al-Jalib family, who were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes in Beirut, during their funeral in the village of al-Sour, Deir al-Zour province, northeastern Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

FILE - Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon's coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

FILE - U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, walks up a flight of stairs to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Islamabad, for talks about Iran. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven months after a 14-year-old girl’s body was found in D4vd’s towed SUV, the alt-pop singer has been arrested on suspicion of killing her, authorities said.

Detectives arrested the 21-year-old, whose legal name is David Burke, on Thursday on suspicion of murder in the investigation of the killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, Los Angeles police said. Authorities had not publicly named Burke as a suspect previously. Investigators are expected to present a case to prosecutors on Monday, police said. Burke’s lawyers have declared his innocence.

Here are a few things to know about the case:

Burke was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, police said, at a home near the Chateau Marmont, the legendary Hollywood hotel that has been home to decades of industry scandal and lore. It is about two miles from the upscale Hollywood Hills street where Burke's Tesla and Rivas Hernandez's body were found.

He was booked into a jail in South Los Angeles with no bail several hours later.

Prosecutors say on Monday when they receive the case they will review it to decide whether there is enough evidence for charges.

Burke's defense attorneys stressed that Burke has only been detained under suspicion, no indictment had been returned and no criminal complaint has been filed.

“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,” the lawyers said.

The seventh grader’s family reported her missing in 2024 from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. Her long-dead body was found in an apparently abandoned Tesla Model Y impounded on Sept. 8, a day after she would have turned 15. Authorities in court documents list her age at death as 14.

In a tow yard, a bag covered with insects and a strong smell was discovered, and police found a decomposed head and torso when they opened it. Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office investigators discovered the limbs had been severed, and in a second bag found dismembered body parts.

No cause or time of death has been publicly revealed, and it is not clear whether they have been determined with any specificity, a potential hurdle to prosecution.

After the medical examiner revealed its initial findings, police in November got a judge to block the agency from releasing any more information. That court order remained in place Friday.

D4vd, pronounced “David,” went viral on TikTok in 2022 with the hit “Romantic Homicide,” which peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. After signing with Darkroom and Interscope Records, D4vd released his debut EP “Petals to Thorns” and a follow-up, “The Lost Petals,” in 2023.

D4vd said in an interview last year that he was homeschooled after moving from New York to Texas at age 8 and while he appreciates art from Houston and New York, his artistry was shaped more by the internet.

“I was such an internet kid. The internet is really what I claim as my home,” he said, explaining that he was online every day, doing schoolwork, making songs and videos and posting on social media. “My neighborhood was Instagram and the society was the internet.”

When Rivas Hernandez’s body was found, D4vd was on tour supporting his first full-length album, “Withered,” and “Locked & Loaded,” Fortnite’s first official anthem, which he partnered with Epic Games on, had just been released. An email seeking comment Friday from Epic Games was not immediately answered. The last two North American shows of the tour, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with a scheduled performance at LA’s Grammy Museum, were canceled, as was the European tour that was to have begun in Norway.

The singer had been under a secret grand jury investigation looking into the death of Rivas Hernandez. The status of that part of the case isn't clear.

Often when a grand jury is convened, an indictment with charges comes before an arrest. But, as Burke's lawyers noted, none has been issued.

In Los Angeles County, prosecutors can charge a defendant then take their evidence before a judge in a public preliminary hearing to decide whether a trial is warranted. Or they can go to a grand jury, which circumvents the process, keeps it secret, and puts the case on a direct path to trial.

A grand jury may be used because its subpoena power can compel witnesses to talk in ways that police can't. There were several unwilling witnesses in this case.

The grand jury's existence — and the designation of D4vd as its target — was revealed when his mother, father and brother filed an objection in a Texas court to subpoenas demanding they come to Los Angeles to testify. The Associated Press obtained documents in the case in February that had been sealed in California. The filing said the Tesla was registered in the singer’s name at the Texas address of his subpoenaed family members.

Associated Press Writer Sarah Brumfield contributed from Cockeysville, Maryland.

Singer-songwriter, David Burke aka D4vd sits in artist space at Coachella music festival on April 18, 2025 in Indio, Calif. (AP Photo)

FILE - American singer-songwriter, David Anthony Burke, aka D4vd, performs on the Casino stage during the 58th Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF), in Montreux, Switzerland, July 19, 2024. (Cyril Zingaro/Keystone via AP, File)