The Los Angeles Police Department has found a dead body inside an impounded Tesla registered to singer d4vd.
ABC News reported that officers responded to a tow yard in Hollywood yesterday (September 8) at 12:30pm after receiving a report of a foul odour coming from a vehicle. According to the police, the car had been there for a couple of days and the body was inside a bag in the front boot. As yet, there’s no information about the identity of the deceased.
Per the news outlet, video footage showed yellow police tape surrounding the Tesla in the impound lot with a white canopy nearby.
The Tesla is registered in Hempstead, a city near Houston in Texas, to d4vd, real name David Anthony Burke. NME has contacted representatives for Burke for comment.
The singer posted on Instagram yesterday to announce the release of a deluxe version of his debut album ‘Withered’, ‘Marcescence’. He was also active on his Instagram Stories yesterday, posting a photo of himself with fellow singer-songwriter Malcolm Todd.
Burke is currently touring ‘Withered’, which came out in April this year, and is set to perform in Minneapolis tonight. The tour will bring him to Los Angeles on September 20, while he’s due to come to Europe in October for a run of shows including four in the UK.
He began making music in 2021, soundtracking his own Fortnite video montages, before he rose to prominence with his 2022 singles, ‘Romantic Homicide’ and ‘Here With Me’, which went viral on TikTok. Last week, he released the first official Fortnite anthem, ‘Locked & Loaded’, in collaboration with Epic Games.
His old Fortnite montages influenced ‘Withered’, too. “I went back and listened to my own music to see what made it special,” he told NME in February. “It was about trying to find the balance between bringing my own DIY flavour to the studio but also staying true to where I’ve come from, which is Fortnite and BandLab. All of that helped me get back to the very primal approach I used to have with my music.”
Speaking about making ‘Withered’ to NME in April, he added: “It was a very introspective process. I had went to London and I was like, ‘I’m gonna spend two weeks here in this sad, gloomy place’ – the vibes were just perfect for what I wanted to do and the mindset I wanted to be in. The title of my album, ‘Withered’, is like when a rose grows and then it decays and dies, returning back to the dirt.
“So I wanted to use this process to grow and also to take myself back to the soil where I started. I was just thinking about my own music and all the accomplishments I had amassed, and how my creative process changed throughout the past two years, and how I could go back to that mindset and the things that made my music special and unique.”
