LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Medical examiner's officials on Wednesday released the name of a teenage girl who was found deceased in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd , and Eyewitness News has learned she is a teen who went missing in Lake Elsinore last year.

Celeste Rivas, 15, was identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office. The official cause of death was listed as "deferred."

Rivas was reported missing from Lake Elsinore in early 2024.

Authorities discovered her body on Sept. 8 after responding to a tow yard near Mansfield Avenue and Romaine Street in Hollywood.

Officers went to investigate a foul odor coming from the Tesla, which police sources say had been at the lot for two days after it was found abandoned on a public street.

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