Texas police release surveillance video after pregnant teen and boyfriend killed
Texas police have released surveillance footage they hope will lead to answers in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman and her boyfriend. The couple were found shot in the head in a car and may have been dead for days.
Police on Friday had not named a possible motive or suspects as family and friends mourned the deaths of Savanah Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22. Soto went missing before Christmas just before she had been scheduled to have an induced labor.
The Bexar county medical examiner’s office ruled both deaths homicides caused by gunshot wounds to the head.
The couple were found on Tuesday in Guerra’s car outside a San Antonio apartment complex. On Thursday, police asked the public for help identifying two people seen in surveillance video that included the car and was recorded before the bodies were found. McManus would not say whether investigators believe the couple was dead when the video was taken. “Detectives are hopeful that surveillance video will lead to the events leading up to their death,” the San Antonio police chief, William McManus, said.
The video shows Guerra’s car briefly pulling up next to a pickup truck at a spot close to where the couple was found, McManus said. A person gets out of the truck and approaches the driver’s side of the car. Another person is seen briefly stepping out of Guerra’s car, but McManus said they do not believe that person was one of the victims.
He has described the case as a capital murder investigation and called it “a heinous act”.
At a vigil in San Antonio on Thursday, Savanah Soto’s grandmother, Rachel Soto, described her as a “funny girl” and said she loved everybody and loved to live life. She said her granddaughter was looking forward to becoming a mom for the first time, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
“I just pray to God that she took her baby with her and that she is at peace,” Rachel Soto said.