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Miami-Dade Police Dept. / AP
This undated booking mug made available by the Miami-Dade Police Dept., shows Rudy Eugene, 31, who was shot and killed by Miami-Dade Police after he refused to stop eating another man's face in Miami, Saturday, May 26, 2012. The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The man who mauled off a homeless man's face over Memorial Day weekend apparently had no human flesh in his stomach, a report shows.
Law-enforcement sources told the Miami Herald an autopsy revealed 31-year-old Rudy Eugene had undigested pills in his stomach but no human flesh. The pills have not yet been identified.
Eugene was fatally shot by an officer after he refused to stop chewing on Ronald Poppo's face along the MacArthur Causeway.
Read the original story on NBCMiami.com
Though officials have speculated bath salts may have sparked Eugene's wild behavior, it remains unknown what prompted the attack.
Girlfriend of face-eating attacker blames drugs or voodoo
Officials told the Herald a preliminary review found marijuana in Eugene's system. Those who knew Eugene said he was known to smoke marijuana but the drug is not known to cause violent spurts.
A source also told the newspaper Eugene did not have his two front teeth but that chunks of flesh were found between his teeth. The source also said pieces of flesh were found on the floor of the scene.
What caused naked face-chewing attack: Bath salts, LSD?
Officials said the autopsy report would not be released to the public until the investigation into the shooting concludes - a process that could take more than a year.
Poppo, meanwhile, continues in critical condition in the hospital.
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Dave, you shoot mad dogs be they four or two legged
This is a cover up to hide the truth about the Zombie apocalypse.
GO DO THAT VOODOO THAT YOU DO SO WELL! (Blazing Saddles)
"LEGALIZE MARIJUANA"
In the reporters article he states that it's not known what he was on. They think it's Bath Salts?...This is man made...anything man made will sooner or later do you harm or KILL YOU!!! Legalize MARIJUANA!!! and all this kind of insanity will stop. It was even said in the report that "MARIJUANA"would not cause behavior like this. MARIJUANA was created by GOD!!! for his people to use...It grows with out mans help...thats why it will never go away.
You are high. Nuff said.
I like granola!!!
Clearly a case of racial discrimination. We need the Al and Jessie show on this one.
Weedola bars are awesome dude!!!
nah i honestly think they should save the flesheater and all like him combine them with all the child molesters to make the greatest game show ever made for cable so you get justice and some good old-fashioned entertainment:)
"He should of tasered him" HAH. Well the good news out of all of this from some of these sentiments confirm that the bleeding hearts will be the first to die when the zombie apocolypse hits full fledge. And then think, when they start limping towards us in their skinny jeans we will finally have a justified reason to shoot em in the face. Oh and another bit of irony. I'll get to yell "not so committed to your vegetarianism now hippy, huh" before I unleash the lead.
How long HAVE you been off your meds?
8 hrs. Just woke up sober.
I'll kick back with some weedola bars and watch that 2pipes.
How stupid can these article authors get? So if a person has no human flesh in his stomach it means he hadn-
You know what, screw it, I really need to go find a new home page. This is ridiculous, I'm wasting time leaving comments here when I could be playing a fun game.
Where was this guy born ? Raccoon City ?
No logical reason this investigation should take over a year!!!
Toxicology results can be completed in 30 to 90 days max!
He was alike a rabid animal!
Cop did right to put him down.
Bath salts? Can someone explain this? Really? Bath Bath salts can turn you into a cannibal? Shouldn't that be cause enough to pull them off the market? Even if they just MIGHT turn you into a cannibal? That should at least be on the label. Warning: Not to be taken orally. Might result in mild cannibalism.
The Chinese immigrant cannibal in Canada should have immediately been put down.
But this month he is being allowed an outing ... to improve his mental health.
When I first read a poster write that it was a cover up, and that the police used deadly force against Rudy Eugene who was fighting "not eating" on the other bum, and that they accidently shot the homeless man in the face. Now I believe it, cuz this story is very fishy!
you know if this was a white man eating a black mans face, the first words out in the discussions would have been racism.
No, just because some cannibals like white meat and others prefer dark meat, it's not racism
2 cannibals are eating a clown, the 1st says to the 2nd "Does this taste funny to you"??
All of these comments about "why wasn't he tazered instead of being shot"...are you people serious? This animal was gnawing off the face of another human being.
2 Timothy 3;1 but mark this, there will be terrible times in the last days, so, these people on drugs, suddenly have super human strength, growl, strip nake, and eating humans this remains me of Demon possession, drugs is an open door for demons to enter,but the people who invented the drugs is also to blame, and the stores who sells these drugs value money over human life. Romans 1;3 they invent ways of doing evil. 2 timothy 3;2 people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud and abusive. Titus 1;16 they profess to know GOD, but in their actions they disowned him, and are detestable and disobedient men. Romans 1;29 they have become, filled with every kind of wickness, evil greed and depravity, Phillipians 3;19 their destiny is destruction, 2 Timothy 3;4 traitors, impulsive, arrogant, loving lust more then the love of YAHAUWAH,
The world's first "Bolemic Zombie"!!!
Good joke.
It's 'cannibal', not 'zombie'
Pharmacies make deadlier drugs than the banned substances. Another business going out of control making money, terrorizing the world. Where are the regulators? Oh yeah, they are busy collecting campaign funds.
Obama must have spent some of his missing years in Florida. How many more of his sons are gonna make headlines this summer? and WTF is up? 4 cases of cannibalism in one month? A Psycho gay porn star, a Florida pothead, a Kenyon/American student and communist Koreans. damn lefty cannibals.
Why is everyone trying to blame it on drugs? Maybe this guy just snapped.
Because they are chemicals manufactured to mess with the body chemicals, with the main intention os making big profits and so not as well regulated as they should be.
Sooooooo really, the unidentified pills could have caused him to hallucinate (spelling??) and maybe he though the guy he was gnawing on was a giant taco or something...lol this whole zombie apocolypse thing is ridiculous...
No he got violent and didn't stop chewing off the face even after he was shot at. The active ingredient can be deadly if the dosage is not accurate and a lot of times the dosage is individual-specific.