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Subscribe to RSSA Florida man has been arrested on charges that he hacked to death a Connecticut man and ate the victim's eye and part of his brain.
Police in Lynn Haven, Fla., said Wednesday that 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith was arrested Tuesday night on a Connecticut warrant for murder.
According to police in Bridgeport, Conn., Smith was covered in blood when he told a relative on Dec. 16 that he had killed a man with a hatchet and eaten pieces of his brain and his eye.
The relative contacted authorities after the body of Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez, 43, was discovered Jan. 20 at his Bridgeport, Conn., apartment. Police say Smith left Connecticut that day on a Florida-bound bus.
Lynn Haven police say federal, state and local law enforcement officers took Smith into custody at a residence without incident.
According to ctpost.com, an affidavit in the case says Gonzales had seen Smith sleeping outside on a porch and invited him to come in from the cold and share the apartment he was living in.
Once in the apartment, the affidavit states, Smith began beating Gonzalez about the head and face with the ax, ctpost.com reported.
He later told his relative the blows to Gonzalez's head were so severe he was able to remove an eye from the victim's head along with a piece of the victim's brain, which he then carried in a plastic bag to a nearby cemetery where he ate the parts at his brother's grave site, ctpost.com reported..
Odalys Vaszuez told ctpost.com that she wants justice for her stepfather's slaying.
"Here it is that my dad was trying to help this guy, telling him to come inside from the cold," she told the website. "If my father was helping him stay warm, what kind of person is it who does this, who repays him by swinging an axe at him and hitting him so hard it blows his brains out?"
Police said the woman Smith was staying with in Florida was unaware of the allegations and is cooperating with investigators, according to NBCConnecticut.com.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Primordial insanity....
No comment Stella ?? If this ain't a cry for help, what is??
how do you help someone like? the only thing I can think of is to put him out of his misery best for him and bast for society too
What did one card playing cannibal say to the other?
I just threw away a perfectly good hand...
Occupy camp? j/k, Couldn't resist, first responder humor.
This is just horrible, poor guy, did the right thing and, just, damn.
I thought zombies werent allowed weapons (or allowed to run). Isnt that a zombie rule or something?
Peanut, weapons or not always double tap!
Now that’s just taking “Come on in and eat a little something” WAY too far.
No, seriously…there has to be more to this sordid story than what is being told in the article. Most likely, the victim (otherwise known as “tonight's entrée”) tried to come on to the psyco in some sexual manner and it just turned the dude into a freakin' zombie. It’s no excuse for cannibalism, but some guys just can’t handle the gay stuff. So you have to be REAL careful who you hit on, or you just might get your butt eaten...literally.
Still....you can’t go turning somebody into dinner just because they want a little ass. That's not what "let's go grab a bite" is supposed to mean.
Happens everyday in Mayberry
There is a REASON why most homeless are alone and outside.
This is one of them. Mental instability.
yesterday I came across a British news website and on the front page there was a story about the US sending an aircraft carrier through that strait next to Iran as a show of "kiss our ass" to Iran threats of closing it down, funny how this website would rather tell you about depraved acts of mental US citizens than what our beloved government is up to around the globe.
I've got two better words for this article than "no comment". Try HOLY SH!T!!!!!
"If my father was helping him stay warm, what kind of person is it who does this, who repays him by swinging an axe at him and hitting him so hard it blows his brains out?"
Ummm, a really crazy person?
So a guy by the name of Tun Tun invites a guy over for a bite.......... and he does!!
OMG -- and to think that this man was walking around the streets! I cook for the local homeless vets center, and I can tell you that most of these men are in desperate need of psychological help and should NOT be roaming around the streets. Most of them look like they're going to explode at any minute! I don't know if this guy is a verteran or not, but that crazy look he has on his face is what I see every time I take food to the shelter!
Years ago budget cuts forced them from treatment centers. Now when forced to deal with them local authorities are blamed. That's a joke. If they shouldn't be roaming the streets, then they are dangerious. Yet so many seem to think they are harmless. Guess this proves otherwise.
Worst houseguest EVER!
That's it ... I'm never going to Mexico again ... wait a minute ... did it say Florida???
And then he ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
ZOMBIES!!!!!!
Soylent Green is people!
I wonder what hamburger is ...
nm
Another reason I step on the go pedal when I see a hobo.
Phillip - How old are you? Do you read history at all? What the US Navy did is what the US Navy has done since 1980. It's called the "Freedom of Navigation Program". Read a book dude.
I'm going to see yours and raise you 3 letters... WTF?!!!
A hobo returned late one evening after sundown to rejoin his partner and compare the days events. First hobo said; "I found a set of keys, 3 bucks worth of aluminum cans, and half a happy meal. How'd you do?" Second hobo replies, "I run across a little gal down the tracks here aways; and well, I've been having sex pretty much all day long." First hobo says, "Holy cow man! Did she let you kiss her and everything?" Second hobo says; "Nope, I never did find her head."
Why IS it always Florida (OK, so it happened in CT, but the guy WAS from FL)?... Phil Hendrie? Care to weigh in, anyone?... IMO, it's Florida's crappy public health (esp. mental) and lack of good advocacy programs (this opinion is based on my 2.5 years living in FL...).
JoMan, and ManfromNantucket, I raise you, FTW!
well the homeless guy knew that if he killed someone he would get life in-prison, so he did what he did to get free housing and free food and an occasional lover all for free.
homeless people knows this, i dont think florida has the death penalty and if it does they guy will live to be 60 before they even kill him. they should just kill him, dont evaluate him or try to rehabilitate him, just takle him out back and POW!
Ill be glad to shoot him myself.
The police should of just saved the taxpayers there money and took Tyree smith out back and torched his worthless ass!
Lwdoo, just one thing. That damn pesky Constitution!
Q. What did Jeffery Dahmer say to Mike Tyson?
A. You gonna eat that?
Two cannibals were eating a clown, when one cannibal says to the other;
"Does this taste funny to you?"
Badump Bump Tsssss
REPLY: Now THERE'S a headline you don't read every day!
Tell me about it, diatribe. As soon as I saw the headline I guessed that it would involve Florida in some way.
Even when the weirdest sh!t happens outside the "Sunshine State", somehow Florida is mentioned.
It says the victim lived in an apartment, but it took a month before anyone investigated? I would think the smell would be overwhelming after a few days.... And it said the alleged killer's relative contacted authorities Dec 16th, after seeing him covered in blood; yet he was just arrested?
From which Occupy movement did he come from? At least he didn't use a gun, now I don't know if the anti-axers are going to come out of the woodwork. I hope not.
Axes don't kill people - nutjobs from Florida kill people . . .
I never met a zombie I didn't like. LOL.
this guy is not mentally stable
What did the cannibal get when he arrived late for dinner?
The cold shoulder..
brains, it whats for dinner
Angel thought this guy was a homeless person, but he actually turned out to be a zombie!
JFC,
Master of the obvious! What was your first clue genius?
Next you'll be telling me things like the sky is blue and water is wet. Don't blow my mind man!
Would anyone be making jokes if this victim was a family member?
Who knew zombies could wield axes? Braaaaaaaains.....
George, I'm sure he was someone's son. Now, what did they do to prevent or foster this?
Ya think?
Crazy son of a bitch
Watched Hannibal Lector too many times I think.
Did he bring "a nice bottle of chianti" to enjoy along with his meal?
hehehe, ok so I'm not the only one that went there.
You forgot the Fava beans........
Obviously, this guy needs to be executed today. We do not need to pay for his meals, shelter and healthcare.
^ What he said
In the good old days we would have just lynched him, right?
Jamie R: No in the good ole days, you would not need a reason to do it. I see that you are itching for one. You just make a disgusting story even more sickening.
With his confession, I hope this will lead to a speedy trail. Wrap it up and make sure there is no room for any appeal. If the death penalty applies, then carry it out as fast as possible by law.
We won't need to pay for his meals - he will find other ways to get them. Sorry!! Just had to be said. The guy is one sick S.O.B.
I don't think menus in the cafeterias of our prison systems have what he wants to eat anyway...
The cafeteria is on notice to NOT serve brains and eggs though
Just put this guy in a cell with another killer and give him an ax and do not feed him any meals. He will help bring down the inmate population and will even clean up after he axes his cell mate.
By eating the eye and brains his lawyer have a good chance of getting him in a mental hospital. Three hots, A cot and a chance to get out one day.
I sure wish they'd put this guy in a cell with Joran Van der sloot
Kill him with fire.
That's the way the taco rolls.
Guilty...can we just kill him?
"Christ Puncher"???
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LOL thats a funny name. HAHA.
That's why I never bring home homeless people...well, that and the smell.
Crazy Dahmer like criminals is one of the reasons why middle class people will not allow a homeless person to sleep in their homes. Its bad enough that decent hard working people have lost their homes due to unemployment and high rents, and then some meth crazed freak comes along and makes other homeless folks look bad. I only hope middle class Americans won't judge poor Americans on account of a few bad apples.
scottestinson1 - why would anyone of any class allow a total stranger to sleep in his or her home? Why would you assume that anyone is obligated to allow a stranger to sleep in his or her home? Do you take strangers into your home? No? Then why should anyone else do something that you won't do?
UMGator, my point was not so much whether Americans should invite strangers into their homes or not. Rather, that a needy person has absolutely no business butchering somebody who is trying to help him. I want my country to have a moral standard where people can be generous and expect to be thanked for their good deeds. I don't want my country to become like Somalia where aid workers and doctors need armed guards. Or worse yet, have the Government raise taxes so that we can give people welfare checks. I would like America to be a country where old fashioned charity is still respected.
Absolutely scottestinson1! But, as you allude, there is too much messed up $h!t going on for citizens to take chances on being kind. It's just hard to tell when kindness is the right thing to do sometimes.
Gourmand?
proving once again no good deed go's unpunished unfortunately this what the world has come to in Texas we had 2 men and a woman the woman would act like she was broke down someone would stop to help and the men would come up and rob and kill whoever stopped
Dark Guardian: Don't go dragging Rick Perry and his family into this. This guy was really sick.
Who, Rick?
Now what is so wrong with that? It's no worse than killing any other animal as long as you eat the flesh.
Uh, you really aren't supposed to eat the brain, even if cannabalism is your thing. Ever heard of Mad Cow Disease? Same thing happens if you eat the brain of an infected human.
Although, this guy sounds like he's got way more problems than MCD.
danger of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. If not crazy now, could be later as well as other symtoms
Most likely it wasn't urban dweller hunting season and this guy didn't have a permit/tag. Pretty serious offense to hunt out of season.
I'm just glad the hunter didn't use a gun or all the anti-gun folks would come out of the woodwork. Actually, this hunter is probably on the cutting edge in showing us the future of hunting. If the anti-gun folks had their way, we'd all have to hunt with hatchets and the like.
Not that I'm anti-hatchet (or other blades in general), don't want to start such an argument and get the NHA people riled up, but those things are really dangerous.
Good thing for the hunter that the urban dweller didn't have a gun.
I wonder if enjoyed his meal with some fava beans and a nice chianti.....
Yet another proof that no good deed goes unpunished.
Exactly!
Mentally unstable people should have a good benefited job so they can get insurance so they can get drugs and therapy to stop them from being mentally unstable. Or so that's what Republicans tell us.
I would actually think Republicans would want to execute this guy.
And what's wrong with expecting able-bodied people to work to earn a living and insurance benefits? Oh, that right. You live off government checks that are funded by taxpayers who actually work for a living, so you figure that is the way everyone should live. If no one worked, who do you think is going to pay taxes so that you can buy groceries?
Mitt Romney?
OK, A. This guy was probably not mentally stable enough to hold down a job, and B. please do a little research on "the working poor." Not everyone on welfare is unemployed. Many of them in fact do have one or more jobs, but the pay is not enough to make even basic ends meet, and jobs like that rarely come with benefits.
OMG! This has got to be one of the all-time worst stories I've ever heard!
UMGator,,
This brain eating axe murderer should have a job? seriously? do you want to work along side of him?
Yeah, me neither.
to expand on flbikerchick's point...
even if a person is mentally ill, and the drugs can somehow make them functional so that they can get and keep a job, unless you're forcefeeding the drugs to them, often times once the drugs kick in and the mentally ill person feels better, they think they're 'cured' and quit taking them...because drugs 'fix' things, right?
No easy answer to this problem, and no, locking them up isn't necessarily an answer either...there are a lot of variables here...unless this guy started out eating neighborhood pets, or expressed a desire to eat somebody else's brains, there's really no way to know he was going to do this...there are a lot of schizophrenics and other mentally unstable individuals who don't pose a danger to anybody but themselves
There IS evil roaming the land, one guy stabbed his seatmate on a Greyhound bus over a hundred times and then cut off his head for good measure.The other passengers just bolted of course, didn't want to get involved.
If he had a job, he'd just show up at work one day and hack his fellow employees to bits.
To all of you people looking to do good deeds....just remember that many homeless people out there are not just down on their luck many times they are criminally insane or completely crazy. I am not saying that you should not help someone out but it would probably be safer and saner to give to the local homeless shelter.
Moral of the story? Don't worry about doing good deeds kids. But if you do try to do a good deed, watch your back and keep a .357 magnum handy until you're sure the guy your helping isn't a freak.
That won't help when someone you let in walks up behind you with a baseball bat. Or in your sleep.
KenMan don't bring guns into this. Bad enough Pelosi is putting together legislation to ban ownership of axes.
wonder if he were on drugs? mental illness? a very frightening story... hope for rehabilitation? guess from now on, persons will call the police first and say someone sleeping on my porch...
Sounds like PCP. This isn't an entirely uncommon occurrence (dismembering and cannibalism) for those who have a very bad reaction to PCP.
As a psych RN I didn't know that Alan, but it sounds logical.
As I was reading the article I was thinking that the assailant would almost have to have been psychotic- but it certainly could have been drug induced psychosis.That would explain why by the time authorities started looking for the guy he knew enough to leave town,versus at the time that he committed the crime he was so out of it that he had a conversation with someone else, still covered with blood and didn't try to cover his tracks(openly told the other person what he had done.)
Do you know of any cases firsthand, where PCP has predisposed someone to cannibalism? I know of another similar case to this one (another nurse I know only casually claims to have been present) In that case,according to my coworker, at The Federal Medical Center in Springfield, MO several years ago, an inmate killed another and partially devoured one of the victim's vital organs.IF my coworker's story is accurate, the assailant and the victim in his story had both been locked up a long time in a maximum security facility, where it would have been hard for someone to sneak any contraband in to an inmate, although anything is possible.Of course because somebody allegedly engaged in canabalism once and hadn't been gooned on PCP, doesn't mean that PCP doesn't increase the likelihood of cannibalism.
Hmmm...It's gruesome and even hard to read and I almost didn't bother to read the article, but you may have some information that health care professionals need.
KC, I noticed your response and wanted to provide a couple of links. I'm a bit backed up at the moment, but here's two that I was familiar with:
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x339729128/Bakersfield-dad-accused-of-biting-out-sons-eye
http://www.rapnewsdirect.com/0-202-257866-00.html
Brains! Brains! Brains! This guy is definitely gonna need a double tap!
What the HELL! I am speechless - and about to throw-up. What sick individual.
Lesson to others: Never invite anyone sleeping on your porch into your house.
At least he left on a full stomach.
"Come back!
I was going to make Cappuchino "
There goes my dinner, lunch and breakfast. How can a person do something like this? Can we
say total whack o'doodle. We are talking some serious mental health issues for sure.
Don't waste the tax payers money on this man, end this now! A .45 to the back of the head should do the trick.
Will the Tea Party zombies stop at nothing?
Why is there always someone that has to throw politics into the mix when there's nothing political even mentioned? Joking or not it's so juvenile!
Oh, Steph, lighten up. It was a joke (and kind of funny at that)!
Actually, the zombies are the democrats; they stagger around blindly following Obama, which I don't understand as Obama doesn't have ANY brains! But hey, democrats are the walking dead after all! Now there's a brand of Zombie ammuntion out there, just for moments like this!
Yes! Exactly! They are like the undead. They shuffle around looking for freebies continuously. Actually, the average zombie has a higher IQ than the average democrat.
Jeez... It never ceases to amaze me how childish and immature people in this country can actually be..... What this man did to another man is beyond politics period. Grow the FU.
Since we've entered a political string - yes, it does sound like the guy was a democrat; he obviously didn't have any brains so he took what he wanted without rightfully working for it. Sounds like a democrat to me! But unfortunately, don't think the victim could have been a Republican, it was documented that the victim did have brains and they were eaten... Just saying...
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