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LAPD Holds Surveillance From D4vd’s Rental as DA Says No Case Yet in Teen’s Death

Investigators are reviewing seized footage as the medical examiner defers a cause of death.

Overview

  • Police executed a search at the Hollywood Hills rental tied to singer D4vd and took video from multiple exterior cameras, according to the homeowner.
  • The property owner, Mladen Trifunovic, says he has hired a private investigator to gather information and has no findings to share yet.
  • Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says the matter remains under investigation and that no case has been presented to prosecutors.
  • The county medical examiner has deferred the cause and manner of Celeste Rivas’s death pending further testing that could take months.
  • Rivas’s decomposed, dismembered remains were found Sept. 8 in a towed Tesla registered to D4vd; police say he is not currently a suspect and his team says he is cooperating.