On January 22, 2026, cops in Montana picked up 23-year-old streamer Neo Langston in Helena based on a warrant out of Los Angeles. Langston, who’s tight with the singer d4vd, skipped out on showing up as a witness for a grand jury looking into the killing of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He’s being held without bail and got shipped off to California already.
To be clear, Langston isn’t facing any charges tied to the death itself. This arrest just shows how hard prosecutors are pushing to get people talking in a case that’s got the whole country hooked, especially since it involves an up-and-coming music guy. The grand jury stuff in LA is all under wraps, which only amps up the buzz nationwide.
A tweet from X.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was from Lake Elsinore, California. She was born around September 7, 2010, so she was about 14 or 15 when she died. Her family kept reporting her missing throughout 2024, and the last time anyone heard from her was back in April that year.
Later evidence pointed to her still being alive as recently as January 2025. From what I’ve read in places like FOX LA, she had a rough situation at home, which explains why she kept vanishing before things went horribly wrong.
Then, on September 8, 2025, some workers at a Long Beach impound lot caught a whiff of something awful coming from a towed Tesla SUV. They popped the front trunk and found Hernandez’s badly decomposed, partially cut-up body stuffed in a black bag. The car was registered to d4vd his real name’s David Anthony Burke and it had been ditched up in the Hollywood Hills.
At the start, detectives thought maybe it was suicide. But the body was too far gone for solid toxicology results, and after checking out security cams and the car’s tracking info, they changed their tune. There was this sketchy late-night drive to some isolated area in Santa Barbara that didn’t add up. By November 2025, LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide team officially called it a homicide investigation.
d4vd’s this 20-year-old R&B singer from Houston who blew up on TikTok with songs like “Here With Me” and “Romantic Homicide.” His whole career screeched to a halt after the body was found he even canceled a bunch of tour stops.
He got named as a suspect that same month, but no charges yet. Rumors from spots like TMZ suggest investigators think someone helped with the dismemberment and dumping, but that’s not confirmed. His people are denying everything, and he’s lawyered up.
In California, grand juries go over evidence behind closed doors to figure out if there’s enough for charges. Prosecutors can haul in witnesses to testify under oath, and if you blow it off, you end up with a warrant like Langston did.
Nobody knows exactly what Langston might spill. He’s in the same social scene as d4vd, but there’s no public info connecting him straight to what happened. Other folks, like d4vd’s old tour manager Robert Morgenroth, have already gone in to talk.
TMZ’s been saying that the prosecutors, headed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman, are prepping murder charges against d4vd. Back in December 2025, their sources claimed an indictment was coming soon. But officials aren’t saying a word, so take it with a grain of salt.
Over on X and YouTube, the theories are flying everything from weird rituals to big cover-ups, often spun from dodgy photos or wild guesses. One X thread had people roasting d4vd’s shrinking fanbase with memes, while others griped about why LAPD’s taking so long.
The real reporting keeps it straightforward no charges filed, records sealed to keep the investigation clean. That silence just lets the fake news spread like wildfire, which is why cops don’t leak much.
The grand jury might finish up any day now, and if they go for indictments, it’ll all come out. Until then, it’s radio silence. Folks in the U.S. can probably expect more witnesses getting called and maybe some LAPD updates, but the focus is on solid proof, not the hype.
