SAN ANTONIO — Matthew Guerra’s father has spoken out for the first time since his son and his pregnant girlfriend, Savanah Soto, were found dead.
“We’re just all crushed and trying to pick up the pieces and go from here,” Gabriel Guerra said.
San Antonio police discovered the couple inside their vehicle Tuesday afternoon at an apartment complex parking lot in the Medical Center; they both had a gunshot wound. Savanah Soto’s family said they were both shot in the back of their ears.
Both families are not yet sure what exactly led up to their deaths, or who killed them.
Savanah was a week past her due date and was set to be induced at a hospital Saturday night to give birth to her baby boy, Fabian.
“I hope they pay for whatever they did to my daughter,” said Gloria Cordova, Savanah’s mother.
Cordova said she had a bad feeling all along something terrible had happened to her daughter and her unborn baby. She has been heartbroken ever since she found out they were killed.
“It’s not something that a mom ever wants to hear,” Cordova said. “I didn’t want to accept it."
She said police told them Savanah was in the front seat of the car with a car seat on top of her. She said Matthew was in the back seat.
“Why was she in the front and he was in the back?” Cordova asked. “Obviously, that says someone else was there.”
Cordova suspects Matthew was involved with illegal activity.
Matthew’s father said he knew his son had a criminal history which includes unlawful carry of a weapon, evading police and an assault charge causing bodily injury.
“He didn’t hang around the best crowd,” Guerra said.
He confirmed the assault charge involved Savanah last Christmas. However, he said the two have been in a good place since and living together in Leon Valley.
“They were inseparable. Was it a perfect relationship? No but she definitely was not a prisoner there,” Guerra said. “Her and Matthew were both overjoyed and couldn’t wait for Fabian’s arrival.”
He believed Matthew was going to change for the better once he became a father.
“He talked about how it was going to make him better, a better person,” Guerra said.
Both families are hoping police can make an arrest so they can get justice.
“They took an innocent, an innocent girl that was going to be a mommy, they just took her life for nothing,” Cordova said.