Police are looking for the general public’s assist figuring out two “individuals of curiosity” within the investigation into the deaths of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend, whose our bodies have been present in a automobile in San Antonio, Texas, earlier this week.
San Antonio police shared a video Thursday and mentioned in an announcement that they’re looking for details about two individuals seen in it — one who was driving a darkish coloured pickup with a mattress cowl and the opposite who was driving a silver Kia Optima that belonged to one of many victims.
Earlier than she was discovered useless, Savanah Soto, 18, was final seen within the Optima on Friday afternoon in Leon Valley, an enclave in northwest San Antonio. On the time, officers mentioned her disappearance posed a “credible menace” to her “well being and security.”
Police discovered the our bodies of Soto and her boyfriend, Matthew Guerra, 22, on Tuesday afternoon in Guerra’s Optima.
The 79-second video launched Thursday reveals a pickup headed in a single route, whereas the Optima pulls into the parking zone from the wrong way and parks close to the pickup. Individuals get out of each autos and seem to speak to one another earlier than driving away, the video reveals.
Police mentioned the video was taken from a location close to the place Soto and Guerra’s our bodies have been discovered, about 3 miles from the place Soto was final seen Friday.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus mentioned Thursday the pickup within the video is a Chevrolet Silverado. He added that detectives are combing by further safety movies from locations Soto and Guerra would frequent, in addition to digging into cellphone data and social media posts.
“Detectives are doing all the pieces that they’ll do to unravel this case,” McManus mentioned at a information convention.
He known as the slayings a “heinous act” and “unspeakable.”
The deaths are being investigated as a capital homicide, McManus mentioned. Whereas it is potential Soto and Guerra died in a murder-suicide, he added: “We’ve type of gotten previous that time proper now, except we get proof that might lead us to consider in any other case.”
Soto and Guerra each died from a gunshot wound to the pinnacle, the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Workplace mentioned Thursday. Soto’s demise was a murder. Guerra’s method of demise is pending, in keeping with the medical expert.
Their our bodies could have been within the Optima for a number of days earlier than they have been discovered, McManus mentioned.
An unborn little one was additionally killed, San Antonio police mentioned.
Leon Valley police mentioned when Soto disappeared, she was previous her supply date and that her household contacted San Antonio police as a result of she missed “a necessary medical appointment.”
Soto’s household informed NBC affiliate WOAI of San Antonio that she went lacking the day earlier than she was scheduled to be induced.
Anybody with details about the individuals within the video or pickup is requested to name police. Tipsters can stay nameless, police mentioned.