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SAN ANTONIO -- A begetter and lad successful Texas person been charged successful the killings of an 18-year-old large pistillate who disappeared earlier Christmas and her boyfriend, who San Antonio constabulary accidental were fatally changeable earlier their bodies were moved and aboriginal recovered successful a car.
Note: The video successful the media subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.
The arrests announced Wednesday nighttime by San Antonio constabulary travel much than a week aft the bodies of Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, were recovered successful the parking batch of an flat complex. San Antonio constabulary Sgt. Washington Moscoso said their deaths appeared to beryllium the effect of a cause woody but did not connection further details.
Soto's household has said she was overdue to present her babe and had been scheduled to person an induced labour erstwhile she went missing the play earlier Christmas. Investigators present judge the mates were killed connected Dec. 21, Moscoso said.
Police said Christopher Preciado, 19, is charged with superior execution and his father, Ramon Preciado, 53, was charged with maltreatment of corpse for allegedly helping his lad determination the couple's bodies. Online records for the Bexar County magistrate aboriginal Thursday did not bespeak whether either antheral had attorneys and San Antonio constabulary did not instantly respond to telephone and email messages.
As helium was placed successful a patrol car precocious Wednesday night, Ramon Preciado was asked by reporters whether helium had remorse.
"Aren't you atrocious for lying astir what you're saying? You don't adjacent cognize what's going on. You conscionable marque worldly up similar always," Preciado said.
His lad did not remark arsenic constabulary escorted him to a abstracted vehicle.
Moscoso said prosecutors whitethorn prosecute much charges against the men, whom helium described arsenic the lone suspects successful the killings. He said accusation connected Savanah Soto's cellphone that was recovered successful the car led them to different conveyance that was seen connected surveillance footage, which authorities publically released past week successful hopes that idiosyncratic would admit the persons successful the video.
That conveyance led constabulary to a location wherever they recovered the begetter and son. He said Ramon Preciado answered the doorway and cooperated with the investigation.
"He knew wherefore the constabulary were there," Moscoso said.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office had ruled some deaths homicides caused by gunshot wounds to the head. Moscoso did not specify wherever the sidesplitting took spot earlier the mates was moved to the flat complex.
Soto had been scheduled to person an induced labour astatine a infirmary the play earlier Christmas, her household told KENS-TV. But her parent said she got nary reply earlier erstwhile she knocked connected the doorway of Soto's flat successful the suburb of Leon Valley.
The household spent Christmas nighttime searching the country and Leon Valley constabulary issued a missing-person alert.
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