A Dead Teenager in His Trunk, Singer D4vd (Finally) Cancels His Tour

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Speaker 1: Hey there are folks. It's Friday, September nineteenth. The mystery and macabre surrounding one of the brightest young stars in music continues. The singer has now canceled his tour. His extended album that was supposed to come out today, that's been scrapped too. It has been a week of fast moving developments and it's all started with a dead body in the trunk of singer David's car. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Want to give you an update because today, over the past twenty four hours, a lot has changed in this case of You've been keeping up? Yes, David's singer young Star twenty years old, had been out on tour to promote his new album. Well, now that tour has been canceled. Only had a few dates left to perform this month. It was going to wrap up, but those dates have now been canceled. There was a plan for him to have an extended version of his debut album, Withered, It was supposed to come out today. Those plans have been canceled. Also, we do know that a search warrant was served on a home near where that tesla was found with the body in the trunk. Now, police are telling the local paper out there La Times a lease sources telling them that this was a home he was staying in even though it wasn't registered to him. But they have served a search warrant on this home. We don't know at this point what they found. Also, I do want to emphasize, no matter how things are looking and have been looking, police say they do not have any suspects, They do not have any persons of interest, and they also emphasize that David is cooperating with police. Now, the backstory here, I keep saying David. If you all don't know his name is spelled. He's kind of a new age and online guy, so he spells his name. The A is a four, so it's D four v D is how he spells his name, but it is pronounced David. His real name is David Anthony Burke. Born in New York, but did most of his grown up in Texas, in the Houston area. Now, the backstory here is that on September eighth, the body was found in the trunk of a Tesla. This car had been abandoned. Police picked it up, took it to an impound lot, and at some point a couple of days later, someone noticed a really foul odor coming from that tesla, and that's when authorities were called in and they found a body in the trunk. Now, they described it as being not intact and badly decomposing. They did not release a cause of death when the body was first found. Now, when this all went down, he was out on tour. He wasn't in town at the time that they the discoveries made, but he was out on tour the day that it was discovered that the body was in the trunk, and that this vehicle, this tesla was registered to him, has Texas plates, which is where he's from. David Anthony Burke as his name is registered to him. Now, on the day the body was found, he had a date. He had a tour date he went on and performed. Now, I at the time was surprised. I didn't know what that meant. It seemed like it wasn't being taken seriously enough. But also at the same time, I thought, hey, I guess there's nothing to worry about. He is not anywhere near La right now, so maybe there is in his mind or people around him. He's nowhere near it. He has nothing to do with it. The show must go on, if you will. But then things got a little messed up because this week police were able to identify the victim, which then put this story in a whole new stratosphere. The victim turned out to be a fifteen year old girl. A fifteen year old girl was found in David's car in the trunk, body not intact and badly decomposing. According to police, that victim was identified as a fifteen year old, but also identified yes the name Celeste Reevas, as a young lady who has been missing, reported missing since last year. Since April of twenty twenty four, Celeste Reevas had been reported missing. Where she's been the past year and a half. Those are questions police are going to have to figure out and we're all curious about right now. But the case and the story took on a whole different or heavier meaning when you find out look as horrible enough that a body was found, we are talking about a child who went missing at the age of thirteen. She would have been fifteen now, but she was thirteen years old when she went missing. So where has she been between the day she was reported missing and the day she was found in the trunk of a car. Now police are trying to answer all these questions now, but in the meantime, there are people starting to distance themselves from David. I'm sorry about that. I got a text message and yes, Kendrick Lamar not like us is my ring tone. Sorry continuing here now, people are distancing themselves. Some artists that worked with him are starting to do so. Crocs and Hollister. He had dealer deals with them. They have stepped back and not using him in any of their advertisement right now, you can understand that makes perfect sense that they would do that. But the questions now about the case one, why was the car abandoned in the first place? Was he the one who was driving it when it was abandoned? Police or authority suggests he had, you know, people around him, and there were just because the car was registered to him doesn't mean he was driving. It could have been somebody he worked with. We don't know how did this young lady end up in the car, where has she been and what, if any relationship did she have to the singer. That is something we do not know. He hasn't said much of anything about this case. And actually I'm sorry, folks, that's not right to say he hasn't said much of anything. He hasn't said anything. He has not in the Times in September eighth come out and put out a definitive statement, even saying he hasn't said anything. Now, I understand most of us do understand, and legal case like this, a lawyer would tell you to be quiet. But the silence has been a bit deafening, and it's allowing people to fill in a lot of blanks and fill in a lot of holes. And there's a lot online on social media right now speculating about their relationship. Pictures of David and this young lady have shown up unverified, I should say unverified pictures have shown up online. We will explain to you next what her family says and also what his rep said at the very beginning of this case. All right, continuing here on Amy and TJ. I think some of you made a notice there's only DJ on this Amy and TJ. Yeah, Robes is out. She's actually traveling. She will be back sooner than later, I assure you. But continuing now with what has been a fascinating and fast moving week of developments, and I mean it's one thing when you hear about it up and coming, and I should be clear about who David is. David is an up and coming, a rising star named by Billboard a couple of years ago number one on their list of hottest stars under the age of twenty one. He was number one on their list. As the story goes, he kind of made a name for himself. He was playing video games online, trying to go viral if you will, make videos having to do with him playing Fortnite and whatnot, and he kept running into copyright issue. So he tried to make a video and he wanted to use music and every trying to try to you know, you put all that time in and edit and put all the music into it, you put it online and then oops, you get hit with a copyright and you have to take it down. So he at that point started to make his own music. And he didn't have any training, any background. He could sing a little bit, but he started making his own music and that stuff caught on online and next thing you know, he's got a deal, he's got an album, he's got a tour, he's got a hot name, and he's on Billboard charts. So that's who David is and where David is at this point now. The young lady who's was found, fifteen year old Celeste us I've been identified by police, according to TMZ. The outlet said that they did speak to the mother who had a sneaking suspicion that when she was hearing about the description hearing about the young lady who had been found in that trunk, she just had a feeling that it was her child. She also pointed out the young lady that there was a description in particular of a tattoo on the right index finger of the victim and it's spelled shhh, just sh you've seen that before. Those tattoos is essentially what it represents. But it's on the index finger, on the index finger, the right index finger of the victim. It was pointed out, and you can find them everywhere online. Pictures of David the singer, he appears to have the same tattoo in the same place sh h, on his right index finger. Should point out, that doesn't mean anything because there are plenty people out there who have that tattoo, and some celebrities even have that same tattoo, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything. But a lack of information, a lack of a voice in this story, a lack of information or compassion, or we don't see David. I mean this is we're talking about a child that is dead and in your car. I'm not criticizing this young man for not saying more. He should say more, but the fact that he's not saying anything has left a void in this story that now people are filling in those voids with all kinds of stuff. I beg you all, don't believe everything you read about this case online, I should say, in particular on social media. There are just wild rumors flying around about all kinds of stuff having to do with this case. So just be careful and what you consume and what you repeat, quite frankly, and what you retweet and what you put out there, because all of it there's a lot of bad information being spread out there. David at this point, don't know where he is, don't know where he's going, don't know what is next. Because he was supposed to be in southern California for a couple of shows, or in California West Coast for a couple of shows, but the first one he canceled was on the seventeenth. That was two days ago in Seattle when they that was the day they announced that the victim was a fifteen year old girl by the name of Celesti EVAs, And that was the day, and that was the time that he decided, all right, we need to cancel some shows. Now, I mentioned he has not been saying much of anything, but very early on a statement did come from his spokesperson, and this is all that said. Quote, David has been informed about what's happened, and although he is still out on tour, he is fully cooperating with the authorities. And that's it, and that's what we heard. Look, lawyers tell you to be quiet, don't say anything, let me do the talking for you, and that's understandable. But it's left people, and I can't say this enough. Police have not called him or anybody a suspects. Police have not even called him or anybody else a person of interest. But right now, this is a growing mystery surrounding a pretty big up and coming star in the industry. And right now we have so many more questions and answers, and right now a family is dealing with That's a bit of closure, because at least they know now where they're missing child is. They know what happened to her, to her degree, but they don't know what happened to her. They don't know where she's been the past year and a half. They don't know what her relationship is, if any with David. Yes, let me emphasize that don't even know if there was a relationship of any kind, if they knew each other. We do not have that even confirmed at this point. However, I do have to mention that the mom ce Les Reeves's mom didn't mention that her daughter had a boyfriend named David. Now's a bunch of Davids in the world. I feel like a broken record here. Every time I give one bit of information have to come back and say, well, it doesn't mean anything. I think a lot of people are piecing together that it looks bad. The things just look bad, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. He is it's not even innocent to approve and guilty. He is not even a suspect yet according to authorities. But we shall see at the end of the day. This is this is a tragedy. I know it's a story, it's one that we cover, but it is salacious but the bottom line here is that a child went missing, and that child is now dead, and we don't know exactly what happened to that child. So I think everybody would like to have that answer, nobody more so than her family. So folks following this one really really closely. But we'll hop back on anytime that there are new developments in some of these certainly rows at the level today, but for the time being, as always, on that Apple podcast app on our show page right top corner button, it says follow click that you can get all of our updates coming right to you. You don't have to go looking for them. But for now on behalf of my dear Amy Robot. I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to y'all sooner