family fundraiser<\/a> as Mateo Gonzalez, Gonzalez-Nunez\u2019 son.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cSilvia was a cherished grandmother who loved her family deeply,\u201d the organizers of the fundraiser wrote. \u201cFabiola was a devoted mother whose love for her children was endless. Mateo was a precious baby whose smile and innocence brought happiness to everyone around him.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 3-year-old child was found uninjured in the home, police said. The child was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation, then left in the custody of child protective services.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orville Wright Elementary School was placed on lockdown as officers established a perimeter in the neighborhood. The suspect, 28-year-old Joaquin Escoto, was later found hiding in a nearby home, where he was arrested, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Escoto was booked into Stanislaus County Jail on suspicion of three counts of murder, as well as child endangerment, use of a deadly weapon and an outstanding warrant for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, jail records show.<\/p>\n
Police said Escoto and Gonzalez-Nunez were the parents of the 3-year-old and investigators believe that Escoto lived with the victims in the home\u00a0 The full extent of their relationship remained unclear Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe loss of three lives, including that of an infant child, is a heartbreaking tragedy,\u201d police said in a statement. \u201cWhile a suspect is now in custody, detectives continue their investigation as the victims\u2019 families and loved ones face an unimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three generations of a Modesto family \u2014 a grandmother, mother and newborn baby \u2014 were stabbed to death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723],"class_list":["post-338577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}