'She Got On My Nerves': US Pre-Med Student From Florida State Stabs Her Mother to Death

A 21-year-old American college student has been charged with first-degree murder after state authorities in Florida, US say he drove to his mother’s home and stabbed her multiple times Saturday because “she got on my nerves,"

Pre-med student Emmanuel Espinoza drove about 266 kilometers from the University of Florida in Gainesville to Frostproof for a family event. When he arrived at his mother, Elvia Espinoza’s home, he began stabbing her when she answered the door and then called 911 to confess to the slaying, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

‘Awful & Tragic News’

“#BREAKING: Awful and tragic news out of Frostproof today. A 21-year-old University of Florida pre-med student killed his mother. Sheriff Judd gives details on YouTube: PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) investigating a homicide in Frostproof. The suspect is 21, not 22 as stated in the video," Sheriff Judd said in a post on social media platform X on April 7.

Elvia 46, was on the phone with another relative when her son attacked her. “We talked to him and he confessed. He said, ‘You know, I have wanted to kill my mother for many, many years because she got on my nerves,’" Sheriff Judd said.

“We asked him, ‘What’s your relationship with your mother?’ and, he said about an eight out of 10, that he really loved her, but she irritated him." The mother was a second grade teacher and was loved by the community, Sheriff Judd said. “This is a horrible event," Judd said. “It’s a very sad day with an inexplicable, vicious murder," he said.

(With agency inputs)