Medical Examiner Ruled Celeste Rivas’s Death ‘Homicide’ in D4vd Murder Arrest

A critical piece of evidence in the D4vd murder case is what caused Celeste Rivas‘s death … and a high-ranking LAPD source tells TMZ … the L.A. County Medical Examiner has ruled her death a homicide.

The Medical Examiner had trouble determining the manner of death because of the decomposition of her body when it was found last September … a source connected to the M.E. had told TMZ.

At the time, we were told they may never know whether Celeste’s death was a homicide or accidental, but according to our LAPD source … the M.E.’s Office believes they figured it out.

D4vd was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles … over 7 months after Celeste’s decomposing corpse was found in the trunk of his Tesla, which was sitting in a Hollywood impound lot after being abandoned in the Hollywood Hills while D4vd was out on tour.

He was booked into the LAPD 77th Street Station Jail … and he’s being held without bail.

Members of LAPD’s elite robbery homicide unit showed up at a Hollywood home D4vd was laying low at Thursday afternoon and escorted him outside to a police car … and we got video showing him in handcuffs.

D4vd’s attorneys, Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski, and Regina Peter, previously told TMZ … “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.”