It’s been a very tense week for the families of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra during the Christopher Preciado trial.
Two of Savannah Soto’s brothers were thrown out of court Thursday for staring at the man accused of covering up her murder. The pregnant mother and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra were reported missing on December 22, 2023, when Savanah Soto failed to show up at her appointment to have her son induced.
Their bodies were found days later with gunshots in parking lot of an apartment complex in Leon Valley. Christopher Preciado was arrested days later and charged with capital murder.
Thursday two of Savanah Soto’s brothers were kicked out of court and will not be allowed back because they were staring at Ramon Preciado who is accused of covering up their sister’s murder.
Savanah’s grandmother Rachel Soto believes they were unfairly kicked out.
“To me it’s not fair because he was doing the same thing,” Rachel Soto said. “He turned around from where he was sitting and turned himself and looked at them. Why didn’t they take him out?”
Rachel Soto says each day in court reopens old wounds. Friday detectives showed videos of what would have been Savanah and Matthew’s son Fabian’s nursery. Soto says while evidence is presented in court Ramon Preciado the father of Christopher Preciado receives protection by deputies at all times.
“I think we’re being treated unfair just because their sitting there,” Soto said. “They got all these guards around them. We’re not going to do anything to them. We’re going to wait for trial for them to do what they have to do. We’re not going to do it.”
The Christopher Preciado trial will continue Monday.