SAVANAH SOTO & MATTHEW GUERRA: Texas vs. Christopher Preciado for murder of couple and unborn baby *TRIAL IN PROGRESS*

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Pregnant San Antonio teen missing after failing to show up at the hospital​

A pregnant San Antonio 18-year-old girl has been reported missing after her mother says she was scheduled to be induced and failed to show up on Saturday, December 23. A news report by KENS 5 said she was a week past her due date when she was scheduled to be induced.

Gloria Cordova said that she last heard from her daughter Savanah Nicole Soto on Friday, December 22, and is worried about her safety. Cordova said she could not find her daughter at her apartment prior to the scheduled appointment, and reported her daughter missing to the Leon Valley Police Department at the hospital after she never showed up. She said that "something seemed off."

She told KENS 5 that Soto's phone was dead and police could not get ahold of her boyfriend. Cordova identified Soto's boyfriend as Mathew Guerra to MySA. MySA reached out to police to confirm whether a missing persons report has been filed for Guerra.

'Please come home' | CLEAR Alert issued for missing pregnant 18-year-old who was set to be induced

Gloria Cordova said her daughter, Savanah Nicole Soto, was a week past her due date but never showed up at the hospital Saturday to begin labor.

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'Please come home' | Leon Valley Police searching for pregnant 18-year-old​

“Savanah was so, so happy because she was going to be a mommy, it breaks my heart,” Cordova said.

Cordova said her daughter was ready to be a mom. She had the nursey done and had planned on giving birth with her mother in the delivery room.

However, by Saturday afternoon, Cordova could not reach her daughter. She decided to check on her at her apartment.

“I went by there and knocked and knocked and knocked and she wasn’t answering,” Cordova said.

She said she was not home and her phone appeared dead.

“We got to the hospital, they said she wasn’t there,” Cordova said.

She filed a police report with Leon Valley Police. She said something seemed off and they could not get a hold of her boyfriend, either.

“We don’t even know what happened, they said it could be anything,” Cordova said.

This comes at time when Cordova is still grieving the loss of another child.

“It’s hard, it’s like one after another,” Cordova said.

Last year, she said her 15-year-old son was killed. Now, on Christmas Eve, she has no idea where her 18-year-old daughter is.

“It still hurts because what I tell my kids, I’m not complete, I’m not complete and now I don’t have my daughter,” She said.

She is urging anyone with any information to come forward.

"Please come home, no one's going to judge you, no one is going to say nothing," Cordova said. "I just want you to be home."

 

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Testimony in Christopher Preciado trial continues on Day 4 | Live updates

Christopher Preciado is on trial for capital murder in San Antonio, accused by police of killing a pregnant woman, her boyfriend, and their unborn child.

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Testimony in Christopher Preciado trial continues on Day 4 | Live updates​

It was a devastating crime that gripped San Antonio during the 2023 holiday season: A pregnant woman days away from giving birth, her boyfriend and their unborn child were killed in what police describe as a drug deal.

Live-streaming is not allowed by the court in this trial but KENS 5 will be providing daily live updates each day. See updates from Day 4 of the trial below.

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[Kimster]

10:40 a.m. The truck is tracked a short time later, around 7:16 p.m. at an apartment complex at 6007 Grissom Road, which is the apartment where Savanah and Matthew lived.

10:35 a.m. On Dec. 24, at 6:59 p.m., the truck was tracked to an apartment complex near Penn Oak and Loop 410.

10:30 a.m. Basically, after a long explanation, the witness says the pick up truck was tracked to the apartment complex where Savanah and Matthew's bodies were eventually found. It was tracked to the complex in the early morning hours of Dec. 22, 2023. Savanah and Matthew were last seen alive on Dec. 21. The truck was later tracked back to the Preciado home on Charlie Chan.

 

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Savanah Soto’s brothers barred from courtroom after staring incident in Preciado trial

SAN ANTONIO — It’s been a very tense week for the families of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra during the Christopher Preciado trial.Two of Savannah Soto’s broth

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Savanah Soto’s brothers barred from courtroom after staring incident in Preciado trial
It’s been a very tense week for the families of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra during the Christopher Preciado trial.

Two of Savannah Soto’s brothers were thrown out of court Thursday for staring at the man accused of covering up her murder. The pregnant mother and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra were reported missing on December 22, 2023, when Savanah Soto failed to show up at her appointment to have her son induced.


Thursday, two of Savanah Soto’s brothers were kicked out of court and will not be allowed back because they were staring at Ramon Preciado who is accused of covering up their sister’s murder.

Savanah’s grandmother Rachel Soto believes they were unfairly kicked out.

“To me it’s not fair because he was doing the same thing,” Rachel Soto said. “He turned around from where he was sitting and turned himself and looked at them. Why didn’t they take him out?”

Rachel Soto says each day in court reopens old wounds. Friday detectives showed videos of what would have been Savanah and Matthew’s son Fabian’s nursery. Soto says while evidence is presented in court Ramon Preciado the father of Christopher Preciado receives protection by deputies at all times.

“I think we’re being treated unfair just because their sitting there,” Soto said. “They got all these guards around them. We’re not going to do anything to them. We’re going to wait for trial for them to do what they have to do. We’re not going to do it.”

 

[Guess Who]

Kicked out for staring? There has to be more to the story.

 

[Kimster]

Kicked out for staring? There has to be more to the story.

I think it was a stare packed with warning. #snitch

It’s probably appropriate to throw them out.

 

[Guess Who]

I think it was a stare packed with warning. #snitch

It’s probably appropriate to throw them out.

It was probably appropriate but I'm not sure how appropriate unless there were also other non verbal actions that went with it. I would think there is a lot of "mean mugging" that happens in nearly any trial, especially a murder trial.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

If somebody killed my brother I'd be mean-mugging too.

 

[Guess Who]

If somebody killed my brother I'd be mean-mugging too.

Exactly!

 

[Kimster]

If somebody killed my brother I'd be mean-mugging too.

Whoops. I read that backward. I thought the bad guys were mean-mugging the witness.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Christopher Preciado trial over the murders of a family of three enters second week | Live updates

The capital murder trial of Christopher Preciado unfolds as he faces charges for the 2023 holiday season deaths of a San Antonio family, including an unborn child, in a drug deal gone wrong, according to police.

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Christopher Preciado trial over the murders of a family of three enters second week | Live updates​

The capital murder trial of the man accused in the deaths of a family of three is entering a second week.


In week one of the trial, jurors heard from dozens of witnesses for the prosecution and saw grisly crime scene phones as well as surveillance videos of how police say they connected the crime to the Preciados.

 

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Lead detective in Soto, Guerra murder case says shooting was not self-defense​

The lead detective in the killings of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra rejected the self-defense claim made by the accused killer during his capital murder trial.

He also said Preciado stole Guerra's rings so he could buy car parts.

San Antonio police detective Matthew Goodwin testified Monday during the second week of Preciado’s trial. Authorities say Preciado, 21, shot and killed Soto, 18, and Guerra, 22, during a drug deal on Dec. 21, 2023.

Each had been shot in the head, and had contact gunshot wounds, meaning the barrel of the gun was pushed to their heads.

Jurors watched footage of Goodwin’s interview with Preciado at Public Safety Headquarters. During their conversation, Preciado admitted to speaking with Guerra on Instagram and agreeing to meet to buy drugs.

Preciado said Guerra was “agitated” from the moment he arrived.

“I could tell (Guerra) was on something,” Preciado said to Goodwin.

Preciado said Guerra refused to return his change after he paid with a $100 bill for marijuana.

According to Preciado, Guerra told him to get out of the vehicle and pointed a gun at his face while he sat in the back seat. Preciado said he tried to wrestle the gun away, but it discharged several times, striking him and Soto in the head.

Goodwin said there was no evidence in the vehicle to support that the gun went off in that way.

While using a fake gun on the witness stand, Goodwin demonstrated how difficult it would have been for Preciado’s theory to be correct. He said based on the positioning of the two in the vehicle, it would have been nearly impossible for Guerra and Soto to receive contact gunshot wounds during a scuffle like the one described by Preciado.

While the defendant claimed that he moved Guerra’s body to the backseat by pulling him in between the front and passenger seats, Goodwin said there was no blood on the seats to prove that he did. Guerra’s blood was found on the outside of the vehicle around the wheel well. Guerra also had drag marks on his back, and his pants were down, Goodwin said.

“These are inconsistencies to your story, they don’t add up,” Goodwin tells Preciado in the interview.

Previous testimony established that forensic scientists were unable to identify Preciado’s DNA in Guerra’s vehicle, but authorities say they used data from Soto’s phone, which was left in the car, and messages from Guerra’s Instagram, to connect the defendant to the scene of the crime.

Goodwin said Preciado shot Guerra because he wanted his money. Family members of Guerra said he was a known drug dealer and was “flashy” with his jewelry and money on social media.

Instagram messages obtained by police between Preciado and another user showed Preciado asking them if they would accept two rings in exchange for car parts.

Preciado said he did not have the money to pay for the parts, but had a Versace ring and a ring with a large ruby — the same rings regularly worn by Guerra.

The rings were pawned on Dec. 24, 2023, by a man named Anthony Garcia, Goodwin said. Police were able to collect the rings and obtain security footage of Garcia pawning them.

After the shooting, prosecutors say that Preciado drove Guerra’s vehicle to an apartment complex on Danny Kaye Drive where the bodies were left.

 

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