Man Seen Eating Face of Another Man, Killed in Miami May 28th, 2012 AP/Reuters
A man was shot to death by police as he was seen eating another man’s face on the bike path along the MacArthur Causeway in Miami.
The bloodshed began about 2 p.m., shortly after a 911 call, when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building.
The officer, who has not been identified, approached and saw that the naked man was actually eating the other man’s face. He saw what the man was doing, and ordered him to stop.
Unfortunately, the man did not listen and instead growled at him and then returned to his meal. The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing.
“When the officer approached him, told him to stop, pointed a gun at him. He turned around and growled like a wild animal and kept eating at the mans face,” Armando Aguilar, Fraternal Order of Police President, said.
"He was ripping into his face with his teeth," Larry Vega, a witness to the shooting, said of the attacker.
"He was ripping his skin, his neck. He had him held down. The guy couldn't move really, and he was just tearing into his flesh," Vega told WSVN TV in Miami about Saturday's attack.
Vega flagged down a police officer, who shot and killed the assailant after he failed to respond to repeated orders to stop and back away.
“I stopped a City of Miami police officer and informed him that a homeless man was killing another person by biting and ripping his face to death. The police officer confronted the aggressor and he was like a rabid dog and confronted the officer. Then the officer shot the person 4 times,” said Vega.
"The guy just stood his head up like that, with a piece of flesh in his mouth, and growled," Vega said.
With the attacker dead, 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. An eye, his ears, his nose, cheek and lips were gone.
"It was just a blob of blood," Vega said. "You couldn't really see, it was just blood all over the place.
Vega said he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off the MacArthur Causeway into downtown Miami when he saw the attack on the bridge's off-ramp.
"It was one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen in my life in person," Vega said.
"You see these things in the movies but when you see it up front and up close, it's pretty traumatic. It really is," he said.
Detective William Moreno said police are looking for people to fill in the blanks on what led to the grisly scene in which a witness reported that a man — later identified by authorities as Rudy Eugene, 31, of Miami.
Other homeless people who camp near the scene of the attack told local10.com that they knew the suspect.
The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, caused traffic on the causeway for several hours.
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