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The medical examiner said the 14-year-old's cause of death was determined months ago but was blocked from release.
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The Los Angeles County medical examiner's office on Wednesday announced that they'd ruled Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death a homicide, noting that the 14-year-old died of injuries caused by an undisclosed object or objects.
She was found dead in the front boot of a Tesla registered to TikTok star D4vd, 21, in September. The singer is facing several charges in her death, including murder.
D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys say they will "vigorously defend his innocence".
The musician's defence team has said it believed the "actual evidence will show that David did not kill Celeste" and he was not the cause of her death.
"We will vigorously defend David's innocence," his attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement to the BBC.
Burke is due back in Los Angeles court on Thursday at 0830 local time (1630 BST).
Investigators at the medical examiner's office had examined Rivas Hernandez's body shortly after she was found in September and determined the cause and manner of death on 9 December but were barred from releasing it publicly as police investigated the case.
Prosecutors allege the teen was killed and her body dismembered sometime on or around 5 May 2025, charging documents have said, at least four months before her body was discovered.
"After several months, I am grateful this information can now be released, not only to the public, but also to the grieving family enduring loss," Chief Medical Examiner Dr Odey Ukpo said in a statement.
"It is unfathomable they have had to wait this long to learn what happened to their daughter," said Ukpo, who had criticised the decision to hold off on releasing their findings.
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