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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The crime shocked South Florida and has drawn the
attention of the world. A naked man is shot by Miami Police while eating
another naked man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway.
As the story quickly went viral across the Internet, some have
likened the attack to one by a zombie. Details of the unthinkable attack
included police reporting that when they ordered the cannibal to stop,
he looked up with blood on his face and growled at officers.

Click here for the original story about the cannibalistic attack.

The suspected cannibal has been identified by the Miami-Dade County
Medical Examiner’s officer as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene. Eugene may have
been homeless at the time of the attack, his last known address was in
North Miami.

Since news of the unthinkable attack first broke, the big question
has been, why? Why did the man attack the other? Why were they naked?
Why did the attacker turn into a cannibal on the causeway?
The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar
believes the entire incident is the fault of a new drug trend that has
led to similar incidents. Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial
Hospital said they too have seen a major increase in cases linked to the
street drug called “bath salts” or the new LSD.

“We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,” said emergency room Dr. Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

In many of the cases, Dr. Adams said the person’s temperature has
risen to an extremely high level, they’ve become very aggressive. Some
have used their jaws as a weapon during attacks. Dr. Adams said the
patients were in a state of delirium. “Extremely strong, I took care of a 150 pound individual who you
would have thought he was 250 pounds,” Dr. Adams said. “It took six security officers to restrain the individual.” Adams said the extreme strength and violence of patients on “bath salts” has become a significant threat to all those charged with the task of trying to help those high on the drug.

“It’s dangerous for the police,” Adams said. “It’s dangerous for the fire fighters. It’s dangers for the hospital workers taking care of them because they come in, they have to be restrained both chemically and physically and you’re asking for someone to get hurt.”
Aguilar said drug dealers aren’t aware that the liability could fall back on them.

“I have a message for whoever is selling it out there,” said Aguilar. “You can be arrested for murder if you are selling this LSD to people, unsuspecting people on the street and somebody ends up dying as a result you will be charged with murder.”