The Zombie Apocalypse Is Upon Us! –Update: Eyewitness -Video Update 2: Zombie ID’d-Photo ‘Bath Salts’ Methamphetamine To Blame? 4 Similar Cases In Miami Dade Area Update 3: Victim ID’d Photo

Photo: Naked Zombie Patient Zero --DEAD

Dayum! This is effed up!

(Palm Beach Post) –One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp, police said.

The bloodshed began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building. Witnesses said a woman saw the two men fighting and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.

The officer, who has not been identified, approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man’s head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him. The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.
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The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police. Their identities were not released.

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Update:

Video: Eyewitness describes what he saw:

!He ate his victims nose and eyeballs!

Blood curdling.

Here is a CBS4 Miami report:

Update 2:

(First Coast News) –A naked man who chewed off the face of another man in what is being called a zombie-like attack may have been under the influence of “bath salts,” a drug referred to as the new LSD, according to reports from CNN affiliates in Miami.

The horrific attack occurred Saturday and was only stopped after a police officer shot the attacker several times, killing him.
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“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 man’s face,” Fraternal Order of Police President Armando Aguilar told CNN affiliate WPLG.

Augilar said he suspects the attacker, identified as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, was under the influence of “bath salts.” Four other drug use instances in Miami-Dade bear resemblances to Saturday’s attack, he told WPLG.

“It causes them to go completely insane and become very violent” and take off their clothes, Augilar told WPLG.

Dr. Paul Adams, an emergency room physician at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, told CNN affiliate WBFS that the drug makes users delirious. They exhibit elevated temperatures and extreme physical strength, Adams said.
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Adams said users have been known to use their jaws as weapons, according to WBFS.

According to a 2011 report from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, bath salts contain amphetamine-like chemicals.

“Doctors and clinicians at U.S. poison centers have indicated that ingesting or snorting ‘bath salts’ containing synthetic stimulants can cause chest pains, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, agitation, hallucinations, extreme paranoia, and delusions,” according to the NIDA report. [...]

Photo of Rudy Eugene aka The Miami Zombie:

Source: Miami New Times Blogs. Who have also published an alleged aftermath photo of the victim and Zombie Rudy Eugene. *GRAPHIC*

An excerpt from the article:

The most recent case occurred during Ultra Music Festival this past March, Aguilar says. Evan Oberfelder, a 23-year-old Texas resident, was naked near the 1800 block of North Bayshore Drive when he was hit by a taxi. When the cabbie fled the scene, a bystander attempted to help a bleeding Oberfelder, who kicked the good Samaritan in the groin for calling the cops. It took 11 officers to subdue the young man, who jumped on top of police cars, threatened and attacked the cops – even taking the baton from a female officer and hitting her with it. Oberfelder was charged with felony battery, aggravated battery on a police officer, resisting arrest with violence, criminal mischief, and false imprisonment.

In another incident in West Miami, Aguilar says police had to subdue a man who was trying to bite his neighbors and who had punched the exterior walls of his house so hard that his knuckles were stripped to the bone.

“Both guys admitted to taking LSD,” Aguilar says. “Because of the similarities in those and two other cases, it is my assumption that” Eugene was tripping. Aguilar notes that Eugene continued munching on his victim despite being shot several times by a still unidentified police officer. “He felt no pain,” Aguilar says.

The Miami Herald reported that a Jackson Memorial Hospital emergency room doctor theorized Eugene’s gruesome behavior may have been induced by bath salts, a methamphetamine-like drug that resembles the bathroom product it is nicknamed after. No theory is conclusive until Eugene’s autopsy report is released by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner.

Much more at link.

Update 3:

The victim has been identified. He is 65 year old Ronald Poppo, a homeless man who lived under the causeway. Photo courtesy of Fox News.

H/T G