In one of the most chilling—and absurdly matter-of-fact—cases to hit Lubbock, 29-year-old Nickolas Anthony Deleon told deputies he fatally stabbed his own mother because he was “tired of her s***.” When police arrived at the home in Shallowater, Deleon greeted them with the words, “I murdered her. I killed her.” Subtlety clearly wasn’t on the menu.
According to the affidavit, Deleon had actually planned the murder for that morning, saying he wanted to ask his mother for breakfast before going through with it. Instead of a plate of eggs and bacon, he grabbed a knife. After a struggle on the porch, he admitted to stabbing her, then bizarrely claimed he used bleach—because nothing says “crime scene cleanup” like raiding the cleaning cabinet.
Deleon told detectives the killing “had to happen today.” Why? Because he was annoyed. That’s it. No grand motive, no twisted backstory. Just petty irritation taken to a murderous extreme. He now sits in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a murder charge.
So the next time your grown kid asks for breakfast, maybe think twice—because in Lubbock, apparently even pancakes can be a matter of life or death.
