“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,'" Judd said.
When asked, "What’s your relationship with your mother?" Espinoza replied: "About a eight out of 10."
"He really loved her, but she irritated him and he made up his mind today on his way from Gainesville that he would murder her, and that’s exactly what he did," Judd said Saturday.
The sheriff said Emmanuel told detectives he wasn't on drugs or alcohol at the time of the stabbing — nor did he have any history of such abuse or mental health issues, no arrest record & there was no record of calls under the Baker Act (which focuses on crisis services for individuals with mental illness) to the home.