By Alaa Elassar, CNN

(CNN) — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is expected to announce Monday whether it will file criminal charges against alt-pop artist d4vd in connection with the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

The 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, was arrested Thursday, seven months after the young girl’s decomposed body was discovered in his apparently abandoned Tesla. Her body was found more than a year after she was reported missing in Southern California.

Prosecutors said the case is being reviewed by the office’s Major Crimes Division, which is tasked with determining whether the known facts and available evidence meet the threshold for criminal charges.

“At this time, additional information is not available,” the district attorney’s office told CNN in a statement Friday. “We will share an update on Monday once a filing decision has been made.”

Rivas’ family, who have largely stayed out of public view since her body was discovered, plan to attend Monday’s news conference, according to their attorney.

“The Rivas Hernandez family is committed to ensuring that Celeste’s voice is heard and her memory is honored throughout this process,” Patrick Steinfeld, the attorney for the family, said.

Meanwhile, d4vd’s attorneys said they intend to “vigorously defend David’s innocence,” adding that the singer “has only been detained under suspicion.”

“Let us be clear – 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,” attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement.

“There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed,” the statement said.

Court documents released in February indicate a grand jury has been investigating the singer in connection with Rivas’ death. The filings do not detail what role authorities suspect he may have played in her death, but identify him as a “target” of the probe who may have been “involved.”

Victim was reported missing three times

Monday comes nearly two years after the third – and final – time Rivas was reported missing by her family, capping a series of urgent pleas in early 2024 as loved ones and friends grew increasingly alarmed about the seventh grader’s safety and whereabouts.

She was only 13 years old at the time – a teenager remembered in photos for her soft smile and thick, curly hair.

In September 2025, a day after what would have been her 15th birthday, her dismembered and decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of a Tesla registered to d4vd while he was in Minneapolis on a world tour promoting his debut album, “Withered.”

Authorities have not established a clear timeline for when Rivas was killed, though court records indicate she was 14 at the time of her death. Photographs obtained by CNN suggest she was alive almost a year after she was first reported missing.

Neighbors say the car appeared abandoned, parked on a street not far from the Hollywood Hills home where d4vd had been living. It was later towed, and an employee at the yard alerted police after noticing a strong, foul odor coming from the vehicle.

Authorities arrested the singer on April 16 on suspicion of killing Rivas, taking him into custody at a residence in the Hollywood Hills just over a mile from the tow yard where the young girl’s body was found inside his car.

He is being held in jail without bail.

Clues point to connection between Rivas and d4vd

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Esta semana, el alto el fuego en Irán y las conversaciones de paz penden de un hilo mientras las tensiones se desbordan en la vía marítima estratégica que encarna la nueva capacidad de presión de Teherán y un conflicto que, según advierten los críticos, se ha escapado del control del presidente Donald Trump.

Trump dijo el viernes que Irán había “aceptado todo”, lo que impulsó un repunte en los mercados bursátiles ante la esperanza de que la guerra pudiera terminar pronto. Pero para el domingo, esto parecía otro caso de exagerar la diplomacia, y el presidente volvía a amenazar con destruir los puentes y las plantas eléctricas de Irán, mientras Teherán había vuelto a cerrar el estrecho de Ormuz. La falta de confianza mutua y el temor a un regreso total a la guerra quedaron en evidencia después de que la Marina de Estados Unidos disparara y se apoderara de un carguero con bandera iraní que intentó romper el bloqueo a la flota de Teherán.

Este vaivén es típico del liderazgo bélico de Trump, que oscila entre predicciones triunfalistas de una paz inminente y amenazas alarmantes de violencia. Sus opositores ven caos y ausencia de un plan, mientras que los asesores del presidente insisten en que está utilizando la presión de manera magistral para obligar a Irán a ceder.

Pero la niebla de la guerra de Trump se enfrenta a su próxima prueba de realidad, ya que se prevé una segunda ronda de conversaciones entre Estados Unidos e Irán en Pakistán, antes de la expiración programada del alto el fuego este martes. Los próximos días podrían mostrar si la ya conocida estrategia de intimidación de Trump puede abrir espacios diplomáticos o si su eficacia está disminuyendo. Si fracasa, Trump podría volver a enfrentarse a la disyuntiva de escalar la participación militar de Estados Unidos para intentar encontrar una salida, con resultados potencialmente desastrosos para la economía global y para su propia popularidad, que va en descenso.

Una de las características más confusas de esta guerra es que es prácticamente imposible juzgar la sinceridad y la exactitud de las declaraciones de Estados Unidos o de Irán al respecto.

Nadie fuera de Irán puede decir con exactitud qué líderes están tomando las decisiones tras oleadas de muertes de figuras del régimen. Esto dificulta evaluar su estrategia diplomática.

Pero el ánimo de Trump en la guerra —al menos según se refleja en sus declaraciones en redes sociales— cambia constantemente. La semana pasada, en varios reportes se citó a funcionarios estadounidenses diciendo que Irán estaba dispuesto a dejar de apoyar a aliados armados como Hezbollah y Hamas, y a entregar sus reservas de uranio altamente enriquecido. Esto representaría una enorme victoria para la administración. Pero la historia reciente y las declaraciones y el comportamiento recientes de Irán plantean dudas.

Sin embargo, detrás de la retórica y la beligerancia, hay razones de peso para que ambas partes eviten una reanudación de los combates. Quizá las dos estén aumentando las tensiones antes de posibles conversaciones para crear margen diplomático.

La insistencia reiterada de Trump en que un acuerdo está al alcance sugiere un entusiasmo menguante por una guerra que ha impuesto un alto costo económico y político en un año de elecciones de medio mandato. The Wall Street Journal informó el sábado que, pese a su fanfarronería, Trump alberga serios temores sobre sus consecuencias y los riesgos de una escalada.

Para el régimen de Irán, sobrevivir cuando la guerra termine sería una victoria en sí misma. El bloqueo estadounidense de los puertos iraníes, por su parte, amenaza con convertir una economía devastada en un colapso social. Semanas de bombardeos implacables han causado una destrucción masiva que costará miles de millones de dólares reconstruir.

La administración está dando señales de que cree que puede quebra

NIPOMO, Calif. (KEYT) - A family disturbance led to an officer-involved shooting in Nipomo on Sunday night.

According to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office, at approximately 6:30 p.m., deputies responded to a family disturbance in the 700 block of Hill Street in the San Luis Bay Apartments Complex.

The Sheriff's Office said when deputies arrived onto the scene, an officer-involved shooting took place.

No other details were released, but according to several eyewitnesses at the scene, a man was fatally shot in the shooting.

As of 10 p.m. Sunday night, detectives remain on the scene, the location has been secured and there is no threat to the surrouding neighborhood.

The Sheriff's Office added the investigation is ongoing and more details will be released when available.

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By Sheena McKenzie, CNN

(CNN) — Backlit by an orange sky, Romeo appears. He smokes on a derelict outdoor stage; the only curtains here the blonde hair framing his face. The moody keyboard of Radiohead’s “Talk Show Host” swells, a 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio comes into focus, and a million teenage crushes are launched.

The year is 1996 and director Baz Luhrmann has reimagined William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” for the MTV-era. Fair Verona is now a Venice Beach-style metropolis, the rivaling families tote guns rather than swords, and Romeo pops an ecstasy pill before going to the party where he falls for Juliet, played by a 17-year-old Claire Danes.

But it is the soundtrack – an eclectic mix of songs spanning Des’ree’s ballad “Kissing You,” The Cardigans’ sugary hit “Love Fool” and Garbage’s sexy trip hop tune “#1 Crush” – that captured both the film’s kaleidoscopic energy and shape-shifting ‘90s music landscape.

On its 30th anniversary year – and with ‘90s nostalgia at full tilt – the compilation is also a snapshot of a unique cohesion between film and record companies. A time when albums were a key part of the movie experience that continued on peoples’ CD players long after they’d left the cinema.

For teens during the decade, soundtrack albums were must-have merchandise, PARENTAL ADVISORY labels be damned. The same year as “Romeo + Juliet,” “Trainspotting” came out and Iggy Pop’s thumping “Lust for Life” set the pace for another CD that was both achingly cool and a massive commercial success. This was the era of “Dangerous Minds” (1995), “Good Will Hunting” (1997), “Cruel Intentions” (1999), and many more great albums that those of a certain age remember as clearly as the movies themselves.

A golden era

What was driving all these compilations? CDs were relatively cheap to make, with big profit margins (remember paying $15 for a new release?), and record companies were selling a ton of them. The 1990s marked the biggest boom in record industry history. “Record companies could afford to pay six and sometimes seven figure sums for the soundtrack rights for the film,” said Marius de Vries, co-music producer on “Romeo + Juliet” for which he and fellow music producers Craig Armstrong and Nellee Hooper won a BAFTA.

The “Romeo + Juliet” album itself peaked at No.2 on the Billboard 200 charts and went multi-platinum in several countries. Meanwhile, as de Vries points out, films in the ’90s were “regularly spawning enormous hit singles.” Think Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” (“The Bodyguard,” 1992) or Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (“Titanic,” 1997).

With big money came longer production times of sometimes a year or more, in high-end studios. For the pivotal moment Romeo meets Juliet, Armstrong used a 60-person-strong string orchestra, something he said would be unusual today. Likewise, de Vries had a classical choir in the studio for the film’s soulful renditions of Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and Rozalla’s “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” – both sung by baby-faced choir boy Quindon Tarver.

Luhrmann wanted commercial music to form the “spine” of the film, recalled acclaimed Grammy-winning composers Armstrong and de Vries, with these songs bleeding into the score. Radiohead’s specially-commissioned “Exit Music (for a Film),” for instance, plays soon after the star-crossed lovers perish. Its ghostly lyrics begin: “wake from your sleep.” Luhrmann “uses Radiohead the same way that you’d use a piece of Mozart… he has no class barriers where music is concerned,” said Armstrong. “Whether it’s contemporary, classical, garage, electronic, he treats it all with the same reverence.”

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calf. (KEYT) – CAL FIRE SLO crews are on scene for a 150-acre vegetation fire in the California Valley at the California Solar Farm Sunday night.

The fire first broke out just before 9:00 p.m. around 20 acres and grew to the 150 acre mark just after 9:30 p.m.

CAL FIRE SLO officials indicated the fire could grow to over 2,000 acres, though non-threatening to any structures.

More information on this fire will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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