On a busy Memorial Day weekend in Miami, one man of a cannibalistic nature was shot to death by police as he was seen eating another man’s face on the bike path along the MacArthur Causeway.
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.
“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 Larry Vega, a witness to the shooting.
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 which lost part of his ear, cheek and nose in the attack.
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.
Below is a news report from Local 10: watch the video
http://youtu.be/5nubcU3CKmc
Police requested The Herald’s video surveillance tapes which was then given under a news sharing agreement. The video covers a time frame of about 8 minutes as shown below:
http://youtu.be/wK1yIElSWHE
Police believed the victim may have been homeless and laying down when the crazy naked cannibal attacked. Police also believed the man may have been suffering from “cocaine psychosis” which baked the body internally and often leads victims to strip off their clothes in order to remain cooled down.
Javier Ortiz, spokesman for Miami police’s Fraternal Order of Police told the Miami Herald the officer is a “hero”.
“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment