Hearing begins for singer D4vd in death of 14-year-old girl

In a Los Angeles courtroom, a young musician known as D4vd has entered the formal machinery of justice, accused of the murder and dismemberment of a fourteen-year-old girl. A preliminary hearing — spanning multiple days — will ask not whether he is guilty, but whether the evidence is substantial enough to demand that question be answered at trial. Behind the procedural language lies a family's grief and a community's reckoning with violence visited upon a child. The case reminds us that fame neither insulates the accused nor restores what has been lost.