{"id":14891,"date":"2012-05-31T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2012-05-31T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:10:57","slug":"florida-cannibal-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14891","title":{"rendered":"Florida Cannibal Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8211; The cannibal who was discovered eating a a man\u2019s face on the side of a Florida highway, and had to be shot at least six times before he stopped, has been identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office as <strong>Rudy Eugene<\/strong>, 31, reports CBS Miami. His gruesome attack on the homeless man is the fourth recent, vicious attack in that area blamed on drugs, according to Miami-Dade County police.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, <strong>Eugene<\/strong> had to be shot to death by police after he was found eating another man\u2019s face. Even as he was hit by the repeated shots, he kept gnawing at his victim\u2019s face, whom sources say is now barely recognizable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eugene<\/strong> was arrested on a battery charge when he was 16-years-old, and was arrested at least seven other times for charges including marijuana and trespassing. His ex-wife said that his behavior was erratic and increasingly violent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he had a mental problem, but he always felt like people was against him,\u201d she said. \u201cNo one was for him, everyone was against him.\u201d The woman filed for divorce in 2007 after a little of a year of marriage. She told the reporter that there were times she feared for her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was literally eating his face, from the top of his forehead to his jaw is gone. He wasn\u2019t only gnawing at it, he was swallowing bits of his face,\u201d said <strong>Armando Aguilar<\/strong>, who heads the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police. \u201cThis is about the fourth incident I hear already within our Miami Dade County area where these individuals have taken off their clothes and gone totally insane as a result of the drugs they\u2019re taking,\u201d he continues. \u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s any such a thing as good LSD out there but apparently this is really bad LSD.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8211; The cannibal who was discovered eating a a man\u2019s face on the side of a Florida highway, and had to be shot at least six times before he stopped, has been identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office as Rudy Eugene, 31, reports CBS Miami. His gruesome attack on the homeless man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}