Monday, May 28, 2012

(159) Kẻ "ăn thịt người" khỏa thân ở Miami (updated)

Kẻ “ăn thịt người” táo tợn trên đường phố
Thi thể của người đàn ông “ăn thịt người” máu lạnh sau khi bị cảnh sát bắn chết - Ảnh chụp từ video của Miami Herald
Kẻ "ăn thịt người" khỏa thân ở Miami
(TNO) Cảnh sát Miami ngày 26.5 đã bắn chết tại chỗ một kẻ "ăn thịt người" khỏa thân đang nhai ngấu nghiến mặt của một người đàn ông khác trên đường MacArthur, ở thành phố Miami, Florida (Mỹ).
Các nhân chứng kinh hoàng cho tờ Miami Herald biết một người đàn ông khỏa thân vồ lấy một người đàn ông khác đang đi trên đường.
Người đàn ông này nhiều lần yêu cầu người đàn ông khỏa thân máu lạnh tránh xa ông ta ra, nhưng hắn ta đã đẩy ông này ngã xuống đường, cắn nát và nhai ngấu nghiến phần mặt của nạn nhân, như muốn ăn tươi nuốt sống nạn nhân.
Cảnh sát ngay lập tức có mặt tại hiện trường và yêu cầu người đàn ông khỏa thân dừng lại nhưng người này không nghe, buộc cảnh sát bắn hắn ta một phát.
Sau khi trúng một viên đạn, người đàn ông khỏa thân vẫn tiếp tục nhai ngấu nghiến mặt của nạn nhân, cảnh sát buộc phải bắn thêm nhiều phát súng và người này chết ngay tại chỗ.
Theo Miami Herald, nạn nhân đã được đưa đến bệnh viện cấp cứu, trong tình trạng hết sức nguy kịch, phần mặt của ông dính đầy máu và gần như biến dạng vì những vết cắn của người đàn ông "ăn thịt người".
Phát ngôn viên cảnh sát Miami Javier Ortiz cho biết viên cảnh sát bắn chết người đàn ông "ăn thịt người" khỏa thân máu lạnh được tôn vinh là một anh hùng vì đã cứu mạng người đàn ông trên.
Hiện cảnh sát đang tiến hành điều tra nguyên nhân vụ việc.
Phúc Duy
 Tin cập nhật ngày 7-6-2012:
Cảnh sát báo động loại ma túy mới sau vụ nhai mặt người
Thursday, June 07, 2012
MIAMI (AFP) - Cảnh sát Miami vừa lên tiếng cảnh báo công chúng về một loại ma túy mới, ảnh hưởng mạnh đến trí não người sử dụng, có tên là “Cloud Nine-Chín Từng Mây,” sau khi xảy ra vụ một người đàn ông vô gia cư nhe răng đe dọa sẽ cắn ăn hai cảnh sát viên, chỉ một tuần sau khi xảy ra một vụ nhai mặt người.
Loại ma túy này là một trong những loại mới được chế tạo từ một loại ma túy không bị cấm, được gọi là “bath salt” có bán công khai. “Bath salt” nghĩa đen là muối pha để tắm, nhưng cũng có loại ma túy mephedrone được bán dưới nhãn hiệu “bath salt.” Loại ma túy mới này được cho biết là chế tạo từ mephedrone, và bị nghi là nguyên nhân đưa đến cuộc tấn công tuần qua của một người đàn ông trần truồng nhe răng cắn nát mặt một người đàn ông vô gia cư khác trước khi bị cảnh sát bắn chết.
Sở Cảnh Sát Miami nay khuyến cáo các cảnh sát viên phải thật cẩn thận khi đến gần những người đàn ông vô gia cư có hành động khả nghi và cũng yêu cầu công chúng phải ngay lập tức thông báo với cảnh sát nếu họ thấy người có hành động giống như bị ảnh hưởng của loại ma túy mới. (V.Giang)
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 Face-eating naked attacker in Miami identified
Miami Herald
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
MIAMI — The naked man who tried to eat another man's face before he was shot dead by police was identified Monday.
The man he attacked remained in extremely critical condition Sunday night at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Much of his face was gone, the skin ripped away, the nose bitten and the eyes gouged.
What remained was his goatee and little else.
"We're hoping that he pulls through, for his well-being, but also so he can tell us what happened," said Sgt. Javier Ortiz, vice president of the Miami police union. "Only he knows."
The victim still had not been officially identified Monday.
The macabre scene unfolded about 2 p.m. Saturday on the MacArthur Causeway's off-ramp to Biscayne Boulevard. A Road Ranger spotted the men and shouted on his loudspeaker for the naked attacker to back away. A woman also saw what was happening and flagged down an officer.
One witness said he was riding his bicycle on the MacArthur when he saw a man tearing off pieces of the victim's flesh with his mouth. After an officer approached, Larry Vega told WSVN-FOX7, "The guy just stood, his head up like that, with pieces of flesh in his mouth. And he growled."
The officer fired, striking the attacker, but the man kept chewing, Vega said. The officer fired again, hitting him several more times, eventually killing him.
After that, Vega said, all he saw was blood.
"It's one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen in my life in person," he told the station.
The name of the officer who fired the fatal shots was not released Monday.
Eugene left behind few clues as to what could have prompted the attack. According to court records, he married Jenny Ductant on Dec. 15, 2005, in Hollywood. The marriage ended in divorce after a little more than two years.
"I wouldn't say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him. … No one was for him, everyone was against him," his ex-wife told WPLG.
He had just one arrest to suggest serious violence. Miami Beach police arrested him on a battery charge when he was 16, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The charge was later dropped.
He was arrested seven other times over five years. Court records show that one was for misdemeanor battery, one was for vending near a school, one was for trespassing and four involved marijuana. The last case came in September 2009. In January, the charge was dropped.
Security video from the adjacent Miami Herald building captured snippets of Saturday's violence as the two men — one dead, the other gravely injured and wearing only a shirt — lay on the sidewalk as officers arrived.
Days later, the chatter, theories and questions continued.
An emergency room doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital said Eugene's attack could have been induced by bath salts, a drug nicknamed after the bathroom product it resembles.
Police theorized earlier that it was "cocaine psychosis," a drug-induced craze.
Copyright 2012 Tampa Bay Times

Police look for witnesses to face-chewing attack

MIAMI (AP) - Authorities were seeking more witnesses Tuesday to help explain what led a naked man to start chewing another naked man's face and whose only response when confronted by police was to growl and keep attacking - even after being shot.
At least one witness so far has said he saw the attack Saturday on a busy highway off-ramp. Police have identified the attacker as Rudy Eugene, 31.
The victim, who has not been identified, is in critical condition at a hospital. Both men were naked at the time of the attack, The Miami Herald reported.
"We know that there were many people on the MacArthur Causeway and we're hoping they come forward," Detective William Moreno was quoted Monday by the newspaper as saying.
Police have released few details about the attack, other than confirming that an officer had fatally shot a suspect.
A police spokesman and the Miami-Dade County medical examiner did not immediately return telephone calls Tuesday from The Associated Press.
Witness Larry Vega was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off the MacArthur Causeway that connects downtown Miami with Miami Beach when he saw the savage attack, he told local news media.
"The guy was, like, tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" Vega told Miami television station WSVN ( http://bit.ly/L6kwWt ). "The guy just kept eating the other guy away, like, ripping his skin."
Vega flagged down a Miami police officer, who he said repeatedly ordered the attacker to get off the victim. The attacker just picked his head up and growled at the officer, Vega said.
As the attack continued, Vega said the officer shot the attacker, who continued chewing the victim's face. The officer fired again, killing the attacker.
A surveillance camera from The Miami Herald building nearby captured images of the men's naked legs lying side by side after the shooting.
Vega said the victim appeared gravely injured.
"It was just a blob of blood," Vega said. "You couldn't really see, it was just blood all over the place."
Vega declined to speak Tuesday with The Associated Press. He said he was trying to put the attack behind him.
Ives Eugene, who identified himself as Rudy Eugene's uncle, described his nephew as a "nice and hard-working" man who washed cars at a local dealership.
In a telephone interview, Eugene, 55, said his nephew had asked his girlfriend to borrow her car, but she said no. "So he rode the bicycle, and he never came back home."
Ives Eugene said the family heard Monday about the attack but did not know what sparked it.
Rudy Eugene's ex-wife declined to be interviewed when reached by The Associated Press by telephone.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

Revealed: Victim of 'Miami Cannibal' was star student at elite New York high school - as shocking new video shows he was STILL conscious during EIGHTEEN-minute attack

  • Rudy Eugene, 31, tore into victim's face with his teeth and growled 
  • Police believe he may have taken 'bath salts,' a potent new drug
  • Images have been released of Ronald Poppo, 65, recovering in Miami hospital
  • 75 per cent of victim's face chewed off in 'some of the most horrific injuries staff have ever encountered'
  • Was still conscious when he was stretchered off to hospital
  • Investigators trying to piece together last hours of Eugene's life
By Rachel Quigley


The homeless man whose face was eaten off by the 'Miami cannibal' during a horrific, 18-minute attack was a star student at a prestigious New York school before he became a down-and-out.
A yearbook picture of Ronald Poppo was obtained by the New York Daily News, who reported the victim was in the Latin Club and worked in the guidance office at Stuyvesant High School before he became homeless.
According to his long record of petty arrests, he spent the last four decades in Florida and nothing is yet known about how his tragic fall from grace from top student to a life on the streets.
Injured: This undated booking mug made available by the Miami-Dade Police Dept. shows Ronald Poppo, the victim in a horrific face-chewing attack in Miami
Ronald poppo
Fall from grace: Ronald Poppo when he was a star student at Stuyvesant High School in New York, left, and as a down-and-out in Florida
It comes on the same day footage of the 65-year-old's dramatic rescue was released which shows he was still conscious and moving his arms after the attack, while Rudy Eugene's body lay next to him.
After paramedics tend to the victim's facial injuries, they carefully place him on a stretcher.
As they carry him from the walkway where the attack took place to the ambulance, he starts to wave his arms around and has to be strapped down.
The harrowing attack, which has shocked America, took place on Saturday afternoon on the MacArthur Causeway near Miami beach.
Rudy Eugene, 31, originally from Haiti, chewed lumps of flesh from Mr Poppo's face after stripping and beating him.
New footage of the almost 20-minute ordeal was released hours after the first picture emerged of the victim - as well as stomach-churning images of his horrific injuries.
The video shows that a number of cyclists and drivers passed by and did nothing to stop the brutal attack. One driver slows down before driving off, though police say he then called 911.

911 callers reported Miami face-chewing attack

June 91, 2012-Last Update: 7:54 pm
MIAMI (AP) — A bus driver passing the scene of the Miami face-chewing attack told a 911 operator a naked man was beating another man to a pulp.
On a recording released Friday, the female bus driver urged the operator to send help.
The driver said: "He's going to kill that man, I promise you."
Surveillance video shows 31-year-old Rudy Eugene attack 65-year-old Ronald Poppo alongside a busy highway last Saturday afternoon. A police officer fatally shot Eugene, who bit into Poppo's face. Police have not released a motive for the attack on Poppo, who remains hospitalized.
A male 911 caller reported two men fighting, almost knocking a woman off her bicycle.
Another male caller said a man was taking off his clothes and throwing them into the street.
The caller said: "You can't miss him. He's naked."
http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/state/story/911-callers-reported-Miami-face-chewing-attack/_WHmHov5ZEW7hcvE5fO-1Q.cspx

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