The family of a pregnant Texas woman, killed in what investigators believe was a narcotics deal “that went bad,” insisted on Thursday she didn’t use drugs and was unduly uninfluenced by the man killed alongside her.
San Antonio police arrested two men in connection with the slayings of Savanah Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, who were found shot to death inside his car just after Christmas.
Christopher Preciado, 19, was charged with capital murder while his father, 53-year-old Ramon Preciado, was charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly helping to move the bodies, San Antonio police said.
“It appears to be a narcotics-related deal that went bad,” San Antonio police Sgt. Washington Moscoso told reporters early Thursday.
Soto, who was pregnant and due to be induced just before she disappeared, did not do drugs and was even sensitive to second-hand tobacco smoke, her brother Jordan Corona told NBC News.
The grieving brother said he has no knowledge of Guerra dabbling in narcotics — but worried about his sister’s relationship with her allegedly abusive boyfriend.
“My sister was a little sweetheart. She didn’t even like being near smoke,” Corona said. “I guess it was just one of those wrong-place, wrong-time situations. She doesn’t get around that type of stuff (drugs). Of course her boyfriend was the way he was but as far as her (involvement with drugs), no.”
Guerra was arrested on Christmas Day of 2022 for allegedly beating Soto.
A doorbell camera captured Guerra kicking Soto in the face after screaming at her, “F–k you b–ch, you betrayed me,” according to a San Antonio police report shared with NBC News.
“(Guerra) then began to punch (Soto) in the face with a closed fist 4 times on the left side of the face,” the report added. Soto told detectives that Guerra later stood over her and kicked her “in the face multiple times,” the police report stated.
“It was an abusive relationship, we didn’t approve of it,” Corona said of his sister and her boyfriend. “We tried to…
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