A pregnant Texas teen and her boyfriend have been found dead after going missing on Friday.
A family member told KENS that Savanah Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra were found dead inside a vehicle in the Medical Center area of San Antonio.
“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. “Detectives are looking at this as a possible mruder, but we don’t know for sure.”
McManus said detectives believe the two people found dead in the car are Soto and Guerra, “but we can’t confirm that right now officially until the medical examiner takes a look at the bodies and makes that determination.”
The car is the Kia Optima that was said to belong to Guerra.
“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.”
According to WOAI, the discovery was made at Colinas at Medical Apartments on the northwest side of the city.
Soto hadn’t been seen since Friday afternoon, prompting the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue a CLEAR alert on Monday and launch a search, as CrimeOnline reported. Earlier on Tuesday, Leon Valley Police said that Guerra, Soto’s boyfriend, was also missing.
Soto was scheduled to be induced on Saturday but didn’t show up for the appointment.
“Savanah was so, so happy because she was going to be a mommy. It breaks my heart,” Savanah’s mother, Gloria Cordova, said, according to KENS 5.
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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[Featured image: Savanah Soto/Texas Department of Public Safety]
