Pregnant Texas teen, boyfriend found dead after 2-day search

Evan Rosen, Jager Weatherby, New York Daily News
Updated ·2 min read
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Savanah Nicole Soto, a pregnant 18-year-old from Leon Valley, Tex., a suburb of San Antonio, was found dead Tuesday afternoon, after a two-day search led by family and local police.

The bodies of Soto and her boyfriend, Matthew Guerra — the father of her unborn child — were discovered in the Medical Center area of northwest San Antonio, a family member told CBS News affiliate KENS 5.

According to Guerra’s family, police confirmed both were found dead inside a vehicle in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

“There are two people in the car. They are deceased,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said in a Tuesday night press conference, adding that the car matched the description of “the boyfriend’s” and that authorities believe it had been in the parking lot for several days.

There’s no word yet on who or what was responsible for the deaths, or in what condition the bodies were found.

“It’s a very perplexing crime scene,” McManus said. “Detectives right now are looking looking at this as a possible murder, but we don’t know for sure.”

Soto originally went missing on Dec. 22, and as of Tuesday morning, family members said she was a week past her due date. She was scheduled to be induced on Saturday, Dec. 23, but never showed up for her appointment. She was previously seen at the Leon Valley apartment complex where she lived with her boyfriend, reported CBS News.

No one had been able to contact the boyfriend since Soto went missing, according to her family, and the Leon Valley Police Department issued a CLEAR alert on Monday.

The alert, typically issued for missing or abducted adults, referred to her as an “individual in imminent danger.”

Friends and family organized a search on Monday night and told KENS they were planning a search of the area around her apartment on Tuesday as well.

Police reportedly attempted to gain access to Soto’s apartment on Monday but were unsuccessful.

“She was thrilled and excited about being a mom,” said Rachel Soto, the teen’s grandmother, who said her granddaughter already had a nursery decorated and a name picked out.