(NewsNation) — Friends of singer D4vd, 20, believed the 15-year-old girl found dead in his Tesla was his college-aged girlfriend, NewsNation has learned.

TMZ senior news reporter Charlie Neff told "Banfield" on Thursday that D4vd's friends in the Los Angeles music scene were shocked to hear that Celeste Rivas-Hernandez's decomposing body was discovered inside his trunk.

They told Neff that D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, is a "very gentle person," adding they thought the fact that it was his car "was just extremely disturbing and confusing."

Questions about D4vd's connection to Celeste have swirled for weeks after her body was found Sept. 8. Her cause of death remains a mystery after it was listed as deferred by the coroner.

D4vd and Celeste were 'romantically involved,'

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