{"id":221371,"date":"2026-03-26T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:15:07","slug":"jury-to-hear-final-arguments-in-emotional-soto-guerra-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221371\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury to hear final arguments in emotional Soto\/Guerra murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; This morning, closing arguments will be heard in the capital murder trial of Christopher Preciado.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/both-sides-rest-in-sotoguerra-murder-trial-closing-arguments-set-for-thursday-morning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Both sides rest in Soto\/Guerra murder trial, closing arguments set for Thursday morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is the man accused in the killing of a young couple and their unborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the jury is expected to hear from both sides during closing arguments in this very emotional case.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall, Christopher Preciado is charged with capital murder. He\u2019s accused of killing Savanah Soto, Matthew Guerra, and their unborn child.<\/p>\n<p>This was back in December of 2023 around Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>Testimony wrapped up with five witnesses taking the stand, including an officer who helped search Preciado\u2019s home where investigators say the murder weapon was found.<\/p>\n<p>The Bexar County medical examiner also testified, walking the jury through autopsy findings and challenging the defense\u2019s claim that the shooting was in self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; This morning, closing arguments will be heard in the capital murder trial of Christopher Preciado.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-221371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}