A teenage boy and his dad have been arrested in reference to the killings of a pregnant teen and her boyfriend whose our bodies have been present in a automotive after they failed to indicate for her labor induction.
Christopher Preciado, 19, and his father Ramon Preciado, 53, have been taken into custody on Wednesday evening, the San Antonio Police Division wrote on Fb.
Their arrests got here simply over every week after Savannah Soto, 18, and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22, have been found shot useless in his Kia Optima outdoors his condo within the Northwest Aspect. Their unborn child additionally died.
‘Our deepest condolences exit to the Soto and Guerra households,’ wrote the police division.
Christopher has been charged with capital homicide, whereas Ramon has been charged with abuse of a corpse ‘for serving to Christopher transfer the our bodies after they have been murdered’, the division said.
The slayings are believed ‘to be a narcotic-related deal that went unhealthy’, stated San Antonio police Sgt Washington Moscoso.
‘We do anticipate extra expenses to be pending,’ stated Moscoso, including that the Bexar County District Lawyer’s Workplace is figuring out whether or not there might be ‘any expenses associated to the unborn child’.
Christopher is being held on a $1million bond, per county courtroom information, and didn’t instantly have a courtroom date set. His father had a $100,000 bond set and a listening to slated for February 6.
Savannah was scheduled to go to a hospital on Christmas Eve for her labor to be induced and was reported lacking by her household after not turning up for the appointment.
The younger couple have been discovered useless on December 26 after being left there for ‘presumably three or 4 days’, police Chief William McManus stated final week. He known as the case ‘very perplexing’.
Final Thursday, police launched surveillance footage of two individuals of curiosity within the crime. It confirmed an individual of curiosity getting out of a pickup truck and going to the motive force’s aspect of Guerra’s Kia, and the second individual of curiosity leaving the motive force’s seat of the automotive.
Moscoso on Wednesday stated investigators collected ‘key items of proof’ from Savannah’s telephone and despatched it to the expertise workforce to obtain.
‘We have been in a position to get sufficient info,’ he stated, and cops positioned the Preciados’ house.
‘The daddy answered the door,’ Moscoso stated. ‘He knew why the police have been there (and) cooperated totally with the investigation.’
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