Savanah Soto Video Reveals Two Persons of Interest
Police in Texas are searching for two people of interest in the death of pregnant teenager Savanah Soto and her partner, Matthew Guerra.
The San Antonio Police Department released surveillance footage on Thursday in which two people can be seen interacting. In the clip, one of them is driving a dark Chevy Silverado, while the other drives what police believe to be Guerra's silver Kia Optima—the same vehicle in which the couple was found. The Kia driver can be seen handing an item to the Chevy driver.
The video was captured near the 5900 block of Danny Kaye in the Leon Valley suburb of San Antonio, where the two victims were found.
The bodies of Soto, 18, and Guerra, 22, were found dead inside a vehicle in northwest San Antonio on Tuesday. They were reported missing by family members several days earlier, with reports indicating that Soto failed to show up for a scheduled induction to deliver her baby.
Guerra has been formally identified by medical examiners. A positive ID for Soto is yet to be announced by authorities, but her family confirmed her death to KSAT.
Speaking about the item at a Thursday evening press conference, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said: "What we believe right now, it was something to wipe the side of the car down with. We can't be 100 percent certain of that, but that's what we're studying in this video and that's what we believe right now."
The case has been ruled a capital murder, and police are seeking the public's help in identifying the two people in the video. It is unclear if the footage was captured before or after the couple died.
"It was undetermined at that time whether we were going to be looking at it as a murder-suicide, or as a capital murder investigation," McManus said at the press conference.
"I think we've gotten past that point right now, unless we get evidence that would lead us to believe otherwise. It was a heinous act, it was unspeakable, the tragedy of it."
On Christmas Day, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a CLEAR Alert for Soto. She was reported missing after being last seen with Guerra at about 2 p.m. December 22 in the 6000 block of Grissom Road in Leon Valley, Texas. CLEAR alerts are activated when there is a concern of "imminent danger or involuntary disappearance."
Soto's mother, Gloria Cordova, told KSAT that she called her daughter but could not get through to her after she did not appear for the scheduled induction.
"When I called her all morning she wasn't answering, was going straight to voicemail. We went to the hospital anyways. She was a no-show, and that's when I called the cops," she said while Soto was still considered missing. "This is not like her. She was so excited to have this baby. The house was already baby-ready."
Newsweek has reached out to the San Antonio Police Department via email for comment.
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