LOS ANGELES — Human remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard Monday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The vehicle was registered to David Anthony Burke, a musician whose stage name is D4vd, according to a law enforcement source who was not authorized to discuss the investigation. The singer is alive and is expected to perform in Minneapolis on Tuesday for his world tour.

About 12:20 p.m. Monday, police responded to Hollywood Tow on Mansfield Avenue, according to LAPD Officer Charles Miller. Someone had smelled a foul odor coming from the front trunk of a vehicle, and detectives were sent to investigate the possible presence of human remains.

The car, a Tesla with a Texas license plate, was towed from the tony Bird Streets neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills, according to police sources. The vehicle was abandoned five days earlier.

The case has been classified as a death investigation, according to Miller.

The remains were described as a "head and torso" and were contained in a bag within the trunk, according to the law enforcement source.

KTLA5 also reported that the L.A. County Medical Examiner's Office responded to the scene but couldn't determine the gender of the person due to the level of decomposition.

The L.A. County Medical Examiner's Office didn't immediately respond to a request for more information.

D4vd, pronounced "David," first entered the public eye trough TikTok, where he has 3.6 million followers.

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(Times Staff Writer Richard Winton contributed to this report.)

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