A former teacher of Celeste Rivas, the 15-year-old girl whose remains were found in an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd, is sharing details about the victim.

What did the teacher say about Celeste Rivas?

The science teacher shared a photo on his phone of himself and Rivas with his class. They were standing in front of a poster hung in the classroom, according to a video obtained by TMZ and Complex.

Another image has since surfaced during this investigation, showing D4vd just 0.3 miles away from the area where Rivas used to live before she vanished. The educator also said that the other person in the photo was another former student he had taught years ago.

In the video, the unidentified teacher told the students that Rivas had been missing since she was part of his class. Although there is no information available about the other student, the educator stated that both teens were his students when he taught at Lakeland Village Middle School in Lake Elsinore, California. He no longer works at that school.

Celeste Rivas had two runaway attempts, according to her former teacher

The teacher continued, stating that after Rivas had met D4vd, she had initially run away from home but was later returned by the police.

“When I taught her, she met this dude on social media. He was a rapper in LA,” he said in the video, referring to Rivas and D4vd. “He came and got her. She ran away from home. She was gone for, like, a month. The cops found her in Hollywood [and] brought her back to our school.”

“She came back to our school, kinda told people this story,” he added. “She disappeared again in May of that year, May of 2024.”

As Complex reported, “the teenager had a “Shhh” tattoo on her right index finger, which the singer also sports on the same location.”

When did police identify the body of Celeste Rivas?

After her second disappearance, the teacher said that was the last he had heard about her until recently finding out that the human remains found in the vehicle had belonged to her. He confirmed with TMZ that during the time Rivas was in his class, she was consistently absent, and he had no prior knowledge about her life.

While teaching at a school in Southern California, the educator said that sharing that information with his students helped inform them about the dangers of meeting people they had met online, per TMZ.

As Blavity reported, police identified Rivas, whose body was found inside a bag in the trunk of the vehicle on Sept. 8 at the Hollywood Tow car lot in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office listed the official cause of death as “deferred.”

On Friday, it was announced that D4vd’s tour had been canceled amid the investigation.

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