Lubbock woman indicted for allegedly aiding in husband’s suicide

A 43-year-old Lubbock woman was indicted Tuesday, accused of helping her 26-year-old husband kill himself last month.

Nicole Goin is charged with a state jail felony count of aiding suicide, which carries a punishment of six months to two years in a state jail.

Goin reportedly told a Lubbock police detective she provided the prescription pills her husband, Matthew Goin, took the night he killed himself, according to an arrest warrant released Aug. 1.

Lubbock police responded to a July 26 check welfare call at a residence in the University Club Apartments at 5540 19th St. Matthew Goin’s mother told a dispatcher her daughter-in-law told her Goin had taken several pills and was unresponsive. Responding officers found Matthew Goin in the bedroom. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.

Three days after Matthew Goin’s death, police responded to a domestic disturbance involving Nicole Goin and her mother-in-law that began when Nicole Goin reportedly revealed the events that led to her husband’s death.

Nicole Goin told investigators her husband, who was on community supervision for a felony charge of evading arrest with a vehicle, decided to kill himself because he was worried about going to prison for failing a drug test after using synthetic marijuana. She said he was also sick and had been vomiting blood recently.

She said the two planned to kill themselves that night. The wife, who said she was $12,000 in debt and suffered from depression, provided most of the cocktail of drugs the two took that night, the warrant states. Nicole Goin said she suffered from mental disorders and a digestive condition and was prescribed sedatives and pain medication to treat her illnesses.

“(Nicole Goin) stated she did not want to kill Matt, but did not want him (to) ‘die alone’,” the warrant states.

She said her husband wrote a suicide note for his mother and the couple put together a playlist of music they would listen to as the drugs killed them.

However, Nicole Goin, who said she took more pills than her husband, woke up about two hours later and found him facedown on the floor. She said she moved his body, which was cold to the touch, back on the bed but it fell off again.

Goin was arrested July 31 at University Medical Center, where she was taken after allegedly trying to kill herself. She was booked Aug. 2 at the Lubbock County Detention Center where she remains. Her bond is set at $50,000, according to jail records.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline toll-free number, 1 (800) 273-TALK (8255), connects the caller to a local certified crisis center.