Rudy Eugene a 31 year old male was the attacker of a homeless man in Miami on the MacArthur Causeway. An attack which lasted an entire 18 minutes, ending only after police shot and killed the "zombie" when he refused to stop eating the victim's face who was later identified as 65 year old Ronald Poppo.
Rudy was apparently walking down the sidewalk naked, appearing to be in a zombie-like trance he begins to drag the victim out of the shade made by the tramway bridge. He starts to rip off all of the victim's clothing and assaulting him, the poor homeless man was kicking back from the ground in an attempt to defend himself and fight off his attacker. This was a determined zombie though, and eventually had the body on the ground while ripping at the skin and enjoying his meal.
When Miami Dade County police officer arrives on scene and approaches the cannibal, he points his gun and orders him to stop. Rudy Eugene turned around and growled at the officer like an animal from the wild and kept chewing off the man's face.
Several citizens who passed by the scene had already contacted police to report the situation before help made it there. This Video is thanks to the Miami Herald's building camera. It's not high quality, up close and in their faces, but you can see enough movement to know what's going on.
It is suspected that the attacker was under the influence of "bath salts," the nickname to a legal drug which is becoming popular this year. It contains synthetic stimulants that are still being studied by health and drug centers to find out what exactly they contain. According to the National institute of drug abuse they can cause chest pains, dangerously high blood pressure, increased heart rate, hallucinating, delusions, extreme paranoia, and agitation.
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