On Wednesday morning, San Antonio police announced that Savanah Soto, a pregnant teen reported missing earlier this week, and her boyfriend died from a gunshot wound.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Soto, 18, Matthew Guerra, 22, and their unborn child were found dead inside a Kia Optima in the Medical Center area of San Antonio. Police found the pair on Tuesday, after Soto failed to show up at an area hospital for a scheduled labor induction.
The San Antonio Express-News reports that police classified the case as a capital murder investigation.
Soto was reported missing on December 22, a day before her scheduled induction. Police said there were no signs of forced entry at the teen’s Leon Valley apartment.
Guerra’s car was located less than a mile from a hospital complex, police said, adding that the crime scene was “perplexing.”
“What we’re looking at right now is a very very perplexing crime scene,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters at a brief news conference Tuesday.
“The family was alerted that the car was here, and they phoned it in,” he said, adding that it appeared the pair had been dead for “possibly three or four days.”
Soto hadn’t been seen since Friday afternoon, prompting the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue a CLEAR Alert.
“Savanah was so, so happy because she was going to be a mommy. It breaks my heart,” Savanah’s mother, Gloria Cordova, said before the discovery, according to KENS 5.
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The distraught mother said Soto had the nursery set up for the baby and planned to have Cordova in the delivery room with her. When Cordova knocked on her apartment door to check up on her Saturday afternoon, no one answered.
“I went by there and knocked and knocked and knocked and she wasn’t answering,” Cordova said. “We got to the hospital. They said she wasn’t there.”
Cordova said that she couldn’t locate Guerra and Soto’s phone was dead.
“We don’t even know what happened. They said it could be anything,” Cordova said.
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[Feature Photo: Savanah Soto/Leon Valley PD]
