**WARNING: This story contains graphic details about a murder.**
More details about the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez are emerging as the suspect, D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke), remains in police custody. The autopsy report released by officials determined that she died from "multiple penetrating injuries."
Investigators from the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner noted that when her remains were discovered inside an impounded Tesla last year, Rivas Hernandez was missing two fingers. "The left ring and pinky fingers appear to have been mutilated," the coroner wrote in the report, obtained by E! News on April 22. "I did not locate them during my scene examination."
The investigator also stated that Rivas Hernandez's left eye was "not present," while her right eye showed "extensive postmortem changes."
Police were called to a Hollywood tow yard on September 8—the day after what would have been Rivas Hernandez's 15th birthday—over a report of a "foul smell emanating" from a Tesla that had been impounded earlier in the week. Upon arrival, officers found Rivas Hernandez's "severely decomposed" and dismembered body in the car's front trunk.
The Tesla belonged to D4vd, who was on a national tour at the time. Prosecutors in his case alleged that Rivas Hernandez's body "sat for over four months" inside the vehicle before it was reported abandoned and towed.
In addition to one count each of murder and unlawful mutilation of human remains, D4vd is also facing a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, to which he also pleaded not guilty.
"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," his attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski, and Regina Peter told E! News in an April 20 statement. "We will vigorously defend David's innocence."
