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A University of Florida medical student is in custody after calling 911 Saturday afternoon and admitting to stabbing his mother to death, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.
During a news conference Saturday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said that shortly after 2 p.m., Emmanuel Espinoza, 21, a medical student at the University of Florida, drove to the home of his mother on Saturday afternoon and stabbed her to death. .
Sheriff Judd said Espinonza was driving from Gainesville to Frostproof for a family event for one of his grandparents when the altercation occurred. Espinzona asked her mother if he could stay with her and she accepted.
“He knocked on the front door and when mom opened the door, he started stabbing her and stabbed her many times. She ran away from him, she was talking to a family member on the phone and he also stabbed her.” until she fell and died,” Sheriff Judd described.
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Sheriff Judd went on to say that Espinoza admitted everything to them when they asked him why he did it.
“He said, ‘You know, I’ve wanted to kill my mother for many, many years because she got on my nerves,'” Sheriff Judd said, explaining what Espinoza said when asked why he killed his mother.
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Espinoza told officers he decided today was the day he was going to act on his feelings.
“We asked him, ‘What is your relationship with your mother?’ “And he said she was about 8 out of 10 that he really loved her, but she irritated him. And today, on his way from Gainesville, he decided he was going to murder her and that’s exactly what he did,” Sheriff Judd. saying.
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Sheriff Judd added that Espinoza called 911 after the murder, confessed to the crime and is now in custody. He is also cooperating with authorities, Sheriff Judd said.
Sheriff Judd called the murder a “truly horrific event.”
“Elvia Espinoza was 46 years old and a second grade teacher at Ben Hill Griffin Elementary School in Frostproof and is very loved by the community. It is a very sad day, with an inexplicable and cruel murder. Her family, friends, students and colleagues . at school and with Polk County Public Schools are in our prayers,” Sheriff Judd said.
Espinoza was booked into the Polk County Jail and charged with first-degree murder.
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