{"id":342525,"date":"2026-06-02T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:50:11","slug":"man-accused-of-murdering-3-generations-of-modesto-family-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342525\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of murdering 3 generations of Modesto family appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/modesto-deadly-assault-near-orville-wright-elementary\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of killing three generations of a Modesto family<\/a> appeared in court on Monday as loved ones of the victims gathered across town to raise money for the family left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the courtroom, 28-year-old Joaquin Escoto appeared before a judge on charges including three counts of first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, and child endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused in the deaths of 54-year-old Silvia Nu\u00f1ez, her 23-year-old daughter Fabiola Gonzalez, and Fabiola&#8217;s two-week-old son, Mateo. Investigators say all three were stabbed inside a home on Monterey Avenue on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Family members described profound grief as they tried to make sense of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He cut her wings. She had a whole life in front of her, she had goals, she had dreams, you know, and it&#8217;s very hard,&#8221; said Sofia Nunez, Gonzalez&#8217;s sister. &#8220;We don&#8217;t understand why he did this to them, when they gave him all their love, their respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Family members also said a young child was found unharmed inside the home and has since been taken in by relatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They called us and we went to pick up the child. Thank God the child is with us now. It&#8217;s one relief we have as a family, something that gives us strength,&#8221; said Maria Nunez, Silvia Nunez&#8217;s sister.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Escoto was in a relationship with Fabiola Gonzalez and is the father of both children found at the residence.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Escoto does not have legal immigration status and noted that ICE previously issued a detainer request following a prior DUI arrest. According to the agency, that request was not honored and Escoto was released from custody at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Escoto remains in custody without bail. He is scheduled to return to court on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of killing three generations of a Modesto family appeared in court on Monday as loved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122,14770],"class_list":["post-342525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stanislaus-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342525","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=342525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}