Ronald Poppo, the victim of a viscous attack in Miami where a naked man threw him down and chewed off most of his face, described a scene where a guy he had never really met came up to him on the street and started talking to him before he threw him down and brutally attacked him.  Poppo described the scene in police interview tapes obtained by CBS Miami that were recorded on July 19th.

Poppo described the awful attack and then thanked the police for saving his life.

Poppo told police,

“He just ripped me to ribbons. He chewed up my face. He plucked out my eyes… And basically that’s all there is to say about it.”

Rudy Eugene, the man who attacked Poppo, left his victim blind in both eyes and his face a puzzle of mangled flesh.  Eugene had been walking on the MacArthur Causeway on May 26th when he approached Poppo, who was laying down under the causeway.  Poppo said that Eugene approached him in a friendly way before strangling him and throwing him on the ground and attacking him.

Poppo told police,

“For a very short amount of time I thought he was a good guy. But he just went and turned berserk. He apparently didn’t have a good day at the Beach and he -– he was coming back. And I guess he took it out — took it out on me — or something. I don’t know. What can provoke an attack of that type. I certainly didn’t curse at the guy, or say anything mean or nasty to him.”

The 18 minute attack was recorded on local surveillance cameras.  They show how for 18 minutes Eugene ate Poppo’s face and plucked out his eyes.  Eugene was thought to be high on some type of drugs, possibly bath salts, but only had marijuana in his system.  Although experts are saying that toxicology labs are not able to keep up with all the new formulations of the drugs that keep coming out.

Police who responded to the scene shot and killed Eugene.

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Despite biting off his victims nose, mouth and eyes there was no human flesh found in Eugene’s stomach.

A law enforcement officer tells the The Miami Herald that marijuana was found in the dead man’s body and several undigested and yet to be identified pills.

It will still be weeks before the official toxicology report is released by authorities.

The attack which occurred on May 26 in broad daylight left chunks of the 66-year-old homeless man’s flesh strewn across the ground.

Authorities still believe Eugene may have been influenced by “bath salts” which can cause delirium and violent behavior in users and which can be purchased in both pill and powder form.

Police are still trying to paint a portrait of Eugene’s life leading up to the attack, they known from verified reports that just before he began attacking the homeless man a 911 caller reported that he was “completely naked” and swinging from the top of a light pole on the MacArthur causeway. Directly before the attack Eugene was seen stripping Poppo before attacking his face with his own mouth.

According to one 911 caller:

“He’s beating another man. It’s a naked man beating another man. He is going to kill that man. I promise you.”

Miami-Dade prosecutors will review all findings before the autopsy report is released to the public.

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