From The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News:
Worst Acid Trip in History Blamed in Miami Face-Chewing Attack
The Miami Zombie has a name: Police told local press that the naked man they shot to death when he wouldn't stop eating another guy's face is 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, and that he was in the depths of the world's worst acid trip when it happened.
The local CBS affiliate has word that cops are blaming a new batch of LSD for the zombie-like state in which they found Eugene, naked, chewing on his victim's face. There's not much information available about Eugene yet, except for that he was divorced and his ex-wife said "he always felt like people [were] against him," The Miami Herald's Diana Moscovitz and David Ovalle reported. The Associated Press has the terrifying and surreal witness account to police:
“The guy was, like, tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, ‘Get off!’ ’ Mr. Vega said. ”The guy just kept eating the other guy away, like, ripping his skin.” Mr. Vega flagged down a Miami police officer, who he said repeatedly ordered the attacker to get off the victim. The attacker picked his head up and growled at the officer, who then shot the attacker more than once, Mr. Vega said.
Eugene's victim, who hasn't been identified, is in the hospital in "extremely critical condition," the Herald
reported. "Much of his face was gone, the skin ripped away, the nose
bitten and the eyes gouged. What remained was his goatee and little
else..."
From SkyNews via Yahoo! News:
The girlfriend of the man who chewed off most of
another man's face believes her boyfriend was either drugged or a voodoo
curse was put on him.
Naked Rudy Eugene,
31, was shot dead by police after he had ripped off almost the entire
face of his victim, 65-year-old homeless man Ronald Poppo.Mr Poppo, who was also naked during Saturday's attack beside a busy Miami road, is fighting for his life in hospital.
Eugene's on-off girlfriend of five years, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Miami Herald that the supernatural or drugs were the only way the vicious attack could have happened: "I don't know how else to explain this," she told the newspaper.
She said she never thought that voodoo existed - until now.
Eugene was originally from Haiti, where voodoo is chiefly practised .
His girlfriend, who is not Haitian, said she believed someone put a curse on him.
She said the depictions of Eugene as a face-chewing monster do not make sense to her.
"Something happened out of the ordinary that day. I don't want him to be labelled the Miami Zombie," she told the Miami Herald .
She remembered Eugene as a man of faith who had recently been trying to stop smoking marijuana: "If someone was lost or didn't know God, he would tell them about Him. He was a believer of God."
Eugene's mother, Ruth Charles, also talked to the media to defend her son.
"Everybody says that he was a zombie, but I know he's not a zombie; he's my son," she told Miami Herald news partner CBS-4.
She suspected her son was drugged: "I don't know what they injected in him to turn him into the person who did what he did," she told CBS-4, making the motion of someone putting a syringe into her arm.
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