{"id":8264,"date":"2026-09-06T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:07:00","slug":"exclusive-celeste-rivas-family-powerfully-weighs-in-on-death-penalty-for-alleged-butcherer-d4vd-on-eve-of-her-16th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=8264","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Celeste Rivas’ family powerfully weighs in on death penalty for alleged butcherer D4vd — on eve of her 16th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s family has called for D4vd to get the death penalty \u2014 on the eve of what would have been her 16th birthday.<\/p>\n

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In an exclusive statement to the California Post, her parents said it would be the \u201cperfect\u201d punishment for the locked up singer, who is accused of killing and dismembering her last year.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is currently weighing whether to pursue the death penalty or life imprisonment for the performer, whose real name is David Burke, ahead of his trial later this year.<\/p>\n

Celeste would have been turning 16 on Monday, and Tuesday marks one year to the day since her body was found in the back of a Tesla in a Hollywood tow yard.<\/p>\n

Releasing a never-before-seen picture of their daughter, her family told The Post: \u201cIf the death penalty were activated, it would be perfect for this kind of human being, devoid of feelings and emptiness inside, and without conscience, who only caused pain to our daughter, our family, and the world that supports our precious daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

It added: \u201cBut that\u2019s not in our hands, but rather in God\u2019s, and the California justice system.\u201d It\u2019s signed \u201cThe Rivas Hernandez Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision on whether Burke faces life in prison or death if convicted on the charges lies in Hochman\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Last Monday, moments after Burke dropped his high profile legal team for a public defender in a dramatic hearing, Hochman took to the mics and said he had not made a decision yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DA said he was awaiting a mitigation packet from Burke\u2019s previous legal team outlining the reasons why Burke should not face the death penalty, but had not received it.<\/p>\n

He said he will allow the new public defender time to submit a packet if he chooses. Hochman earlier this year reversed policy when it came to the death penalty, releasing a ground breaking statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cEffective immediately, the prior administration\u2019s extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case is rescinded.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn its place, the new murder with special circumstances policy will consider pursuing the death penalty only after an extensive and comprehensive review and only in exceedingly rare cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said families of murder victim\u2019s survivors will have \u201cconsultation\u201d and \u201cfull input, to ensure that the punishment sought by the office is just, fair, fitting and appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post contacted the DA\u2019s office for reaction to the Rivas Hernandez statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Celeste\u2019s parents watched in horror during D4vd\u2019s preliminary hearings as images of her decapitated and mutilated corpse were displayed in a court.<\/p>\n

Her family ignored their attorney\u2019s request to look away as the pictures were displayed in a Los Angeles courtroom during the first day of the singer\u2019s preliminary hearing last month.<\/p>\n

The couple were later spotted crying in the hall of the courthouse after viewing their daughter\u2019s severed limbs, head, torso and fingers that were allegedly found in the trunk of D4vd\u2019s Tesla.<\/p>\n

The singer is accused of ordering an Uber to deliver Rivas from her family home in Lake Elsinore to his Hollywood Hills home on the night of April 23, 2025, after dating her for months and getting her pregnant.<\/p>\n

He then stabbed her and stood by while she bled out, prosecutors claim.<\/p>\n

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It is alleged he loaded her body in his Tesla and drove to Santa Barbara. Hernandez\u2019s passport card was allegedly found in the exact same spot Burke\u2019s Tesla was tracked months later by a Cal Trans worker.<\/p>\n

Burke allegedly ordered a shovel from Home Depot\u00a0 and had it delivered to his home by Postmates. About a week later, he ordered two chainsaws from Amazon that were delivered to his home, and on May 5, he allegedly ordered a body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags and a blue inflatable pool, court documents say.<\/p>\n

Investigators testified Burke dismembered Hernandez with a chainsaw in the pool. Pieces of it were found on her remains during the autopsy, according to the medical examiner.<\/p>\n

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