Bath Salts: Man chews off face of another

This is truly creepy but something that law enforcement is running into more frequently, especially when someone overdoses on drugs.

On May 26, at about 2 p.m. near NE 13th Street a road ranger saw a naked man chewing on another man’s face and shouted on his loud speaker for him to back away.Meanwhile, a woman also saw the incident and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.

The officer, who has not been identified, approached and, seeing what was happening, also ordered the naked man to back away. When he continued the assault, the officer shot him, police sources said. The attacker failed to stop after being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.

Miami police were on the scene, which was just south of The Miami Herald building on Biscayne Boulevard. The naked man who was killed lay face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage.
The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police.  The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, snarled traffic on the causeway for several hours.

The attacker, who had already devoured the victim’s eyes, nose and ears, growled at a police officer, who shot him several times after numerous orders to desist. The victim was left fighting for his life, with 75% of his face missing. The victim, an unidentified homeless man, was rushed to a hospital, with critical injuries. The skin on his face was ripped off, his eyes gouged and his nose mauled, leaving only his goatee.

Police suspect that the attacker, who has been identified as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, had overdosed on a new, potent form of LSD. An ER doctor, meanwhile, told NBC Miami that Eugene may have been high on “bath salts” — “a drug with amphetamine-like chemicals, nicknamed after the product it resembles.” Whatever the explanation, it’s extremely likely that drugs were involved somehow. “Whenever we see that a person has taken all of his clothes off and has become violent, it’s indicative of this excited delirium that’s caused by overdose of drugs,” says Armando Aguilar of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police. “What’s happening is, inside their body, their organs are burning up alive.”