The Bexar County Medical Examiner revealed on Thursday that a pregnant San Antonio woman and her boyfriend, whose bodies were discovered in a car on Tuesday, both died from gunshot wounds to the head.
Eighteen-year-old Savanah Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22, were found dead Tuesday in a Kia Optima in the 5900 block of Danny Kaye Drive in San Antonio.
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The manner of Guerra’s death, homicide or suicide, is pending. Soto’s death was listed as a homicide.
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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, an enclave on the northwestern side of San Antonio. 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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On Thursday, police released video of two persons of interest in the case. The video shows someone driving a dark pickup truck, described as a Chevy Silverado with a bed cover, and another person driving Guerra’s Kia Optima. The video was taken from a “nearby location of where the bodies were found,” the police department wrote on Facebook.
The video was recorded several days before the bodies were found.
At a briefing Thursday afternoon, McManus said police believe the video shows the driver of Guerra’s Optima handing the Chevy Silverado driver something used to wipe down the side of the car, but “we can’t be 100% certain of that.” He said he did not know if the people in the video had any connection to the victims, and added that police do not believe the person seen driving the Optima was Guerra or Soto.
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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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