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On May 26, 2012, 31 year old Rudy Eugene drove to Miami Beach. After Eugene’s car became disabled, he abandoned the vehicle after roughly half an hour & at noon began to walk across the 3 mile span of the MacArthur Causeway
Upon walking across the causeway, Eugene began periodically stripping himself of his clothing as well as discarding his driver’s license along the causeway as he trekked west.
At around 1:55 pm on the west end of the MacArthur Causeway, Eugene discarded his shoes and bible and approached a 65 year old homeless man named Ronald Poppo. Eugene then proceeded to assault Poppo, pull off his pants, & then Eugene then started biting Poppo’s face.
It was first believed that Poppo and Eugene had not known each other but it was later revealed that the two men had met previously while Rudy Rugene did volunteer work at a Miami homeless shelter.
A passing cyclist named Larry Vega who happened upon what appeared to be Eugene eating Poppo’s face, alerted 911. Officer Jose Ramirez arrived to the scene within minutes.
Officer Ramirez ordered Eugene to cease the attack on Poppo, and it’s reported that the Officer’s instructions to Eugene were met with growls from the cannibal as he continued to gnaw on the face of Poppo.
Upon Eugene’s rejection of police orders to stop the attack, Officer Ramirez shot Eugene once. This proved to be ineffective and Eugene continued his attack on Poppo.
Officer Ramirez eventually shot Eugene 4 more times to render Rudy Eugene dead at the scene. Eugene’s attack on Ronald Poppo continued for 18 minutes before it was stopped.
Incredibly, Ronald Poppo survived this attack that left him missing 75% of his face above his beard as well as having his left eye gouged out. Poppo was left permanently disfigured & blind despite numerous reconstructive facial surgeries.
Poppo later claims that Eugene approached him in a friendly manner, but then spoke of how they were both going to die before accusing Poppo of stealing his bible, then attacking him— plucking out Poppo’s eyes.
During an autopsy of Rudy Eugene, no human flesh was found in his stomach, so the attack was not cannibalistic. A number of undigested & unidentified pills were discovered as well.
Despite speculation the drug “bath salts” was not found to be in Rudy Eugene’s system and toxicology reports were positive only for marijuana, which makes the situation all the more bizarre....
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