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New information revealed in deaths of pregnant San Antonio woman and boyfriend

Savanah Soto's body was found in a car behind an apartment complex on the Northwest Side on Dec. 26, 2023, her family told KSAT. (KSAT)

Police in San Antonio revealed on Wednesday that a pregnant woman and her boyfriend, whose bodies were discovered in a car on Tuesday, had both suffered gunshot wounds, NBC News reported.

Although the medical examiner has not officially identified the couple, San Antonio police said they suspect that the bodies discovered in a Kia Optima on Danny Kaye Drive in the 5900 block belong to 18-year-old Savanah Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22.

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According to a prior statement from the city’s police department, Soto was last seen alive in the Kia at approximately 2 p.m. on Friday in the 6000 block of Grissom Road in Leon Valley. Investigators expressed concern, stating that her disappearance was deemed a “credible threat” to her “health and safety.”

During a news conference on Tuesday night, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that the bodies discovered inside the Kia may have been there for three to four days. He added that the Kia was registered to Soto’s boyfriend.

“What we’re looking at right now is a very, very perplexing crime scene,” McManus said. “Detectives right now are looking at this as a possible murder, but we don’t know for sure. Because of the complexity, the complex crime scene, we can’t say for sure what we have.”

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Soto was scheduled to have an induced labor at a hospital Saturday. Soto’s mother, Gloria Cordova, said in a Facebook post that her daughter “never showed up.”

Soto’s disappearance prompted the activation of a CLEAR Alert, an acronym for Coordinated Law Enforcement Adult Rescue. Instituted in 2019 by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the CLEAR Alert is designed to aid law enforcement in locating and rescuing adults who have gone missing, been kidnapped, or abducted and are in imminent danger of harm or death.


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