Singer D4vd pleads not guilty in death of 14-year-old girl

In a Los Angeles courtroom, 21-year-old musician David Anthony Burke — known to his fans as D4vd — entered a not guilty plea Monday in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a case that asks how far the machinery of ambition and silence can carry a person before it collapses. Prosecutors allege that what began as the exploitation of a child became, when that child threatened to speak, something far darker. The case now moves toward trial with the question of capital punishment still open, and a new public defense team stepping into a story already heavy with consequence.