A Florida pre-med university student killed his mother by stabbing her over 70 times without saying a word when he visited her from college over the weekend, authorities said.
After Emmanuel Espinoza, 21, brutally killed his mother on Saturday, he perplexedly told detectives that he loved her and that they had a good relationship — but that he had wanted to kill her for years because she irritated him, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Espinoza has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother, 46-year-old Elvia Espinoza, the sheriff’s office said.
The student at the University of Florida in Gainesville had traveled to Frostproof, Florida, for a family event Saturday and was going to stay with his mother, Grady Judd said.
He arrived at her home around 2 p.m., knocked on the front door, and seemingly without provocation stabbed her “many times” after she opened the door, Judd said.
On Sunday, Judd shared doorbell camera video from Elvia’s home that showed Emmanuel approach with a small knife in his right hand, hidden behind his back, and knock on the door. Judd said that Emmanuel had put AirPods in his ears and was playing Kanye West and Jay-Z’s song “No Church in the Wild” when he drove up to the house and knocked on the front door.
“His beautiful mother, who was so excited to see her son, opened the door. The second she opened the door, he charged in and started stabbing her,” Judd said.
The mother ran from him, but “he stabbed her until she fell down and died.”
Judd said Emmanuel confessed to stabbing his mother repeatedly, even when he noticed her hands were still moving. He told detectives that he knew where to stab her for maximum effect because of his biology classes.
Emmanuel told detectives that he had cut his hand in the stabbing. When he went to the kitchen sink to wash himself and the knife off, “he wanted to ask his mother for the Neosporin for the cut on his hand, but he noticed she was dead,” Judd said.
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