SAN ANTONIO, Texas – New video shows a 53-year-old father, who has been charged in the killings of a pregnant San Antonio woman and her boyfriend, handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car. He was asked by reporters whether he had remorse.
“Aren’t you sorry for lying about what you’re saying? You don’t even know what’s going on. You just make stuff up like always,” the father, Ramon Preciado, answered.
Ramon has since been charged with abuse of a corpse. He is accused of helping his 19-year-old son, Christopher Preciado move a pregnant 18-year-old and her boyfriend’s dead bodies.
Christopher is charged with capital murder. He is accused of fatally shooting the couple in San Antonio just days before Christmas on Dec. 21. He did not comment as police escorted him to a separate vehicle.
On Dec. 26, the bodies of Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, were found in a vehicle in the parking lot of a San Antonio apartment complex.
The arrests of the father and son came Wednesday night, more than a week after the discovery.
According to San Antonio police, the couple’s death was the result of a botched drug deal.
Prosecutors are expected to pursue more charges against the men, whom they described as the only suspects in the killings. Authorities said information on Savanah Soto’s cellphone, which was found in the car, led them to another vehicle that was seen on surveillance footage, which authorities publicly released last week in hopes that someone would recognize the persons in the video.
That vehicle led police to a house where they found the father and son. He said Ramon answered the door and cooperated with the investigation.
“He knew why the police were there,” Moscoso said.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office had ruled both deaths homicides caused by gunshot wounds to the head. Moscoso did not specify where the killing took place before the couple was moved to the apartment complex.
Soto had been scheduled to have an induced labor at a hospital the weekend before Christmas, her family said. But her mother said she got no answer earlier when she knocked on the door of Soto’s apartment in the suburb of Leon Valley.
The family spent Christmas night searching the area and Leon Valley police issued a missing-person alert.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.