New video shows swatting incident at singer D4vd's TX home amid investigation into teen's death
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Singer D4vd made some changes to the ownership of one of his Texas homes last month, Eyewitness News has learned.
Records show he transferred his Cypress home, located in the Houston area, to his mother's name on Sept. 23 -- about two weeks after a decomposing body was found in his Tesla on Sept. 8.
Officials say deputies were called to the Houston-area home where D4vd's parents live on Sept. 17, but that turned out to be a fake swatting call.
In that swatting incident, a caller claimed there was a shooting with a dead female victim. However, the alarm was cleared, and no incident report was filed.
Video from the Waller County District Attorney's Office shows deputies speeding through the night to the home in the outskirts of Houston, where D4vd's parents live, responding to a 911 call about a deadly shooting.
In audio from the 911 call that triggered the response, a caller says, "I heard, like, some gunshots... and I think someone is dead."
When deputies arrived at the home, they had their guns drawn. But after talking to the people who answered the front door, they quickly learned the call was fake.
It was a case of swatting. Someone reportedly used a device that alters voices to call in a false report.
The swatting case happened last month, in the days after a decomposing female body was found in the trunk of a Tesla belonging to the singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke.
The car had been towed from a street in a Hollywood Hills neighborhood to a Hollywood tow yard before the remains were discovered.
The remains were identified as Celeste Rivas Hernandez -- 15-year-old girl from Lake Elsinore. Celeste had been reported missing by her family at least three times in 2024, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.
Investigators say her body had most likely been in the car for several weeks before being discovered.
The cause of Hernandez's death is still undetermined.
Sources tell ABC News that lab tests and toxicology reports will hopefully answer how she died. Until then, it remains a death investigation and not a homicide investigation.
"It's an ongoing investigation and we have a lot of resources dedicated to bringing it to a conclusion, but to go beyond what has already been made public would be inappropriate," LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told Eyewitness News about two weeks ago.
No suspects have been named in the case, and no arrests have been made.
