A little while back the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out a Zombie Preparedness
warning (
Read it Here) ...it appears they may have been on to something.
Reported on May 27, 2012
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Miami police shot and killed a man on the MacArthur Causeway Saturday afternoon, and police sources told CBS4 they had no choice: the naked man they shot was trying to chew the face off another naked man, and refused to obey police orders to stop his grisly meal.
The bizarre shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m., when police responded to a 911 call about two naked men fighting on a bike path along the Causeway, which was packed with traffic on a busy holiday weekend.
Miami police have not confirmed the details of what happened next, but sources close to the investigation told CBS4 News that officers found one man gnawing on the face of another, in what one police source called the most gruesome thing he'd ever seen.
The fight was taking place at the causeway exit near the Miami Herald building, and amazed officers tried to stop it, ordering the man making a meal out of the other man to stop.
Sources told CBS4 that the man refused to obey, and continued his attack. Investigators sharing limited details about the confrontation, saying only that the two men were fighting and the officers felt they had no choice but to take deadly force.
"During this confrontation an officer did discharge his weapon striking one of the individuals, said Det. Willie Moreno, spokesperson for Miami Police.
But the sources close to the investigation say that dry recitation of the facts apparently doesn't go far enough. They said the man still would not give in to police commands, so officers fired again. "That individual has lost his life right now," Moreno said.
With the attacker dead, lying nude on the pavement, officers and paramedics were able to get to his victim and rush him to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Police sources say the man had virtually no face and was unrecognizable. Police have shared no information about his identity or condition.
Once the bizarre confrontation came to an end, police were left with the task of figuring out what had happened. The investigation forced the closure of the causeway from Miami Beach to Miami, and also closed an exit to the causeway from I-95.
The investigation snarled traffic for hours and delayed thousands of motorists until ways could be found to get them off the causeway. Police have had little official to say about the details, and have not released the name of the cannibalistic attacker.
TCC - So maybe watching all them zombie movies will finally pay off...but seriously this is totally weird.
Is there even a
West Virginia substance abuse resource list for this type of addiction?
Update - The flesh eating cannibal was 31-year-old Rudy Eugene.
Police believe that Rudy attacked his victim because he was having a bought of cocaine psychosis or was suffering from an overdose of “
bath salts,” a synethic drug police say is being used as a new form of LSD.
In the meantime Miami police are asking that any potential witnesses who have not yet stepped forward regarding the incident to call the local police station at 305-603-6350 to report any further details about the attack to investigators.
[Via
inquisitr]
TCC - So a possible bad batch of "drugs" turns a man into a flesh eating zombie? If that is the case be ready for many more attacks.
(Thanks to
Anita Wittig for giving us the follow up info)
Update 2 -
TCC - More details are now coming out about this very odd attack.
Witness Larry Vega was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off the
MacArthur Causeway that connects downtown Miami with Miami Beach when he saw the
savage attack, he told local news media.
"The guy was, like, tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get
off!'" Vega told Miami television station WSVN (http://bit.ly/L6kwWt). "The guy
just kept eating the other guy away, like, ripping his skin."
Vega flagged down a Miami police officer, who he said repeatedly ordered the
attacker to get off the victim. The attacker just picked his head up and growled
at the officer, Vega said.
As the attack continued, Vega said the officer shot the attacker, who
continued chewing the victim's face. The officer fired again, killing the
attacker.
"It was just a blob of blood," Vega said. "You couldn't really see, it was just
blood all over the place."
The victim, who has not been identified, is in critical condition at a hospital.
Update 3 - The victim was identified as Ronald Poppo. Poppo is 65 years old and homeless.
Barry Alston said that he spoke with Poppo on several occasions. “I know that he’s a peaceful person, and that he doesn’t bother anybody," Alston said.
Armando Aguilar, President of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #20, said a man who was fatally shot by an officer had mauled up to 80 percent of another man's face in Miami. The Fraternal Order of Police are thought by many to be Freemasons. Freemasons are thought by many to be tied to darks forces, namely Satan.
It has been told that it took 7 shots to stop Rudy Eugene from continuing the attack, with the final 7th shot being a head shot.
There is also some rumors that this is not a one time event and that a few other zombie style attacks have or are taking place...again this is a rumor and I will try to stay up on it.
All this makes me wonder is a bad batch of drugs made its way onto the streets and this was the results. If it is a bad batch of drugs then one can assume there could be more of this type of attacks to come.
I will try to keep everything updated.
Update 4 -
Several people called 911 after seeing events related to the vicious attack of a
65-year-old homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off along a busy Miami
highway, according to recordings released by authorities Friday.
Callers only reported seeing two men fighting in the shadow of The Miami
Herald headquarters and did not mention seeing Ronald Poppo's face being
chewed.
Surveillance video shows Rudy Eugene, 31, attack Poppo alongside the highway
last Saturday afternoon. A police officer fatally shot Eugene during the attack.
Police have not released a motive for the attack.
"He's going to kill that man, I promise you," a female bus driver said,
urging a 911 operator to send help. Poppo remains hospitalized.
The driver, who wasn't named by authorities, described the scene as she drove
by.
"Listen, there is a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway," she said. "He is
beating another man to a pulp — like on top of the man, beating him, the man is
bleeding."
In another call, a man said the two men were fighting, saying they nearly
knocked over an elderly bicyclist.
"These two bums were going at it with each other, taking up the whole lane,"
the caller said. "I think they were fighting or something."
The unidentified man gave his phone number to the 911 operator. He declined
to comment when contacted Friday evening by The Associated Press.
Another male caller, who didn't mention the fight, reported seeing a man
taking off his clothes and throwing them into the traffic.
"You can't miss him. He's naked," the man said.
Thanks
This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.
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