Turlock woman convicted in deadly 2016 Easter Sunday stabbing

A 41-year-old woman has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon in a 2016 Easter Sunday stabbing in Turlock, Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced on Friday.

Sentencing for Maribel Gonzalez of Turlock is set for March 8.

Gonzalez stabbed and killed 44-year-old Eva Gallardo of Turlock on March 27, 2016, on the 700 block of West Olive Avenue. She also stabbed Gallardo's 27-year-old daughter, who survived her wounds.

Turlock police said Gonzalez confronted Gallardo over a cellphone she believed a family member had stolen. But Gallardo's two sisters, Juanita and Rosemary Cardona, who live in the neighborhood and witnessed the attack, said it happened within seconds, unprovoked, and that no words were exchanged about a cellphone.

Gallardo was the mother of two adult children, a son and a daughter, and a grandmother of a 3-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl.

This story was originally published January 26, 2018 at 1:14 PM with the headline "Turlock woman convicted in deadly 2016 Easter Sunday stabbing."