{"id":43855,"date":"2024-04-07T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=43855"},"modified":"2024-04-07T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T21:15:28","slug":"uf-pre-med-student-drives-to-mothers-polk-county-home-and-stabs-her-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/04\/07\/uf-pre-med-student-drives-to-mothers-polk-county-home-and-stabs-her-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"UF Pre-Med student drives to mother\u2019s Polk County home and stabs her to death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 21-year-old pre-med student attending the University of Florida is now behind bars for stabbing his mother to death at her Frostproof home, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"439\" height=\"522\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Emmanuel-Espinoza.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Emmanuel-Espinoza.png 439w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Emmanuel-Espinoza-252x300.png 252w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said on Saturday, just after 2 p.m., Emmanuel Espinoza drove to his mother\u2019s home and fatally stabbed his mom in the front doorway. She ran from her son, with a family member on the phone. The son stabbed her until she fell and died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emmanuel eventually called 911 and confessed that he wanted to kill his mom for several years because \u201cshe got on [his] nerves,\u201d and rated her an 8 out of 10 when asked about his relationship with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=536&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpolkcountysheriff%2Fvideos%2F800906205232858%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"536\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mother, identified as Elvia Espinoza, 46, was a second-grade teacher at Ben Hill Griffin Elementary School in Frostproof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHer family, friends, students, and colleagues at the school and with Polk County Public Schools are in our prayers,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emmanuel was booked into jail and charged with first-degree murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old pre-med student attending the University of Florida is now behind bars for stabbing his mother to death at her Frostproof home, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[8065],"class_list":["post-43855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-uf-pre-med-student-drives-to-mothers-polk-county-home-and-stabs-her-to-death"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43858,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855\/revisions\/43858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}