Gruesome Flesh-eating Attack

Yeah, I've moved away from posting stories that horrify the senses. Years ago when I started this blog I was posting many of the shockingly true incidents of human behavior. From the rat in the sleeping nursing home patient's mouth to the finger found in a bowl of Wendy's chili, I gave it all.


I'm proud to say my blog has somewhat evolved and now tilts more toward sports and stories with some educational value.  But every now and then there's that one newspaper headline that begs to be blogged about.  


This morning's paper carried such a headline.  As much as I'd like to ad-lib and give my opinion on this grotesque incident, which could happen only in Florida, the facts make it stranger than any fiction.  It's shocking enough to make a zombie blush. 


Flesh-eating Attack





Miami --
Only the police tape, the bloodstains and a grotesque mystery remained after the brutal assault in which one naked man was shot dead by police after he attacked another naked man and began eating his face.
Security video from the adjacent Miami Herald building captured snippets of Saturday's violence as the two men - one dead, the other gravely injured - lay on the sidewalk as scores of officers arrived.
The victim remained at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Monday in critical condition. In addition to eating the man's flesh, his attacker, according to police sources, tried to gouge out his eyes.
The slain man was identified as Rudy Eugene, 31. The name of the officer and the hospitalized man was not released.
"We're hoping that he pulls through, for his well-being, but also so he can tell us what happened," said Sgt. Javier Ortiz, vice president of the Miami police union. "Only he knows."
One witness, Larry Vega, told WSVN-TV that he was riding his bicycle when he saw a man tearing off pieces of the victim's flesh with his mouth.
Vega said he found a police officer, who approached and told the attacker to get off the man.
"The guy just stood ... with pieces of flesh in his mouth," Vega said. "And he growled."
The officer fired, striking the attacker, but the man kept chewing, Vega said. The officer fired again, hitting him several more times, eventually killing him.
"It's one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen in my life," Vega said.
Police theorized that the attacker might have suffered from "cocaine psychosis," a drug-induced craze that bakes the body internally and often leads those it affects to strip naked to try to cool off.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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