Florida: 19yo Student Stabs Couple, Eats Victim's Face

Cyre2067

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More general weirdness out of Florida:

_https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/college-student-eats-face?

A 19-year-old Florida State University student was having dinner with his family Monday night in Tequesta, Florida, when he got angry, stormed out of the restaurant, killed two people, then ate a victim’s face, officials said.

Moments after Austin Harrouff left the restaurant, police responded to a 911 call of a stabbing attack and arrived to find the teen biting off part of a dead man’s face in the driveway of a Tequesta couple’s home, officials said. The man’s wife was found dead in the garage and a neighbor suffered multiple stab wounds.

Harrouff was charged with a double homicide and taken to a nearby hospital, where he remained in an unconscious state. Police and hospital workers have completed some tests, but have not yet found any evidence of drug use.

“He had no criminal record … he was a good kid,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters Tuesday, adding that Harrouff had no apparent relationship to his victims and that the attack seemed to be “completely random.”

The victims were later identified as John Joseph Stevens, 59, and his wife, Michelle Karen Mishcon, 53. They left behind a daughter, Ivy Stevens.

“There’s not one thing in this case that seems to make sense,” Snyder added, shaking his head. “We grasp to get our footing and try to understand what happened and why … but we can’t.”

What doesn’t make sense to police is that Harrouff does not fit the typical description of a deranged murderer. He was a star high school football player and an excellent student, the Miami Herald reported. He took Advanced Placement classes in the International Baccalaureate program at school.

Harrouff was home for the weekend in Tequesta, visiting family with some of his fraternity brothers, Snyder told reporters.

The teen was eating dinner with his family in a local sports bar when he grew enraged by something — possibly the slow service, Snyder conjectured — and stormed out.

He then walked a few blocks, in the direction of his father’s house, and came across Stevens and Mischon sitting in their garage with the door open, an evening habit of theirs, neighbors told police.

He allegedly attacked the couple, using multiple weapons, including a knife and other blunt objects, killing them both. “There was a lot of violence in that garage,” Snyder said.

A neighbor attempted to stop Harrouff, but the teen turned to him and said, “You don’t want any of this,” before attacking him with a knife, police said. The neighbor got away and called 911. He is currently undergoing surgery with non-life threatening injuries.

When deputies arrived they found Harrouff crouched over Stevens, “making animals noises,” and “grunting and growling,” Snyder said.

After attempting to subdue Harrouff with a stun gun and K-9 to no effect, three to four police officers managed to pull the college sophomore from the body, placed him under arrest, and eventually sedated him.
Snyder said though preliminary tests have found no drugs in Harrouff’s system, he “wouldn’t be surprised” if more in depths tests find evidence of Flakka — technically known as alpha-PVP — a strong, synthetic, psychoactive stimulant similar to “bath salts.”

The attack recalls the infamous 2012 Florida case where a man named Rudy Eugene ate a homeless man’s face. Although Eugene was widely rumored to have taken bath salts, police found only marijuana in his system. Eugene’s victim survived.

Another disintegrating soul perhaps?
 
Galatea said:
Deterioration indeed. What is it with Florida?

People talk a lot of trash about NYC and most of it is accurate, but I've NEVER heard of this level of weird. The one that was close was the NYPD officer who was fantasizing about murdering his wife and eating her on the internet in some weirdo fetish chatroom. We do get screaming naked people in times square on occasion though.

This is the second time face-eating and florida have been in the headlines.... :scared:
 
Puck said:
Galatea said:
Deterioration indeed. What is it with Florida?

People talk a lot of trash about NYC and most of it is accurate, but I've NEVER heard of this level of weird. The one that was close was the NYPD officer who was fantasizing about murdering his wife and eating her on the internet in some weirdo fetish chatroom. We do get screaming naked people in times square on occasion though.

This is the second time face-eating and florida have been in the headlines.... :scared:

Could it be related to some kind of parasite that makes people behave this way? The thought came to me because I was reading this article on SOTT just before I saw this thread: Fourth brain-eating amoeba case of the year being treated in Florida
 
I guess the police showed some restraint by not shooting the killer.

The hosts of the show Loveline had a recurring act where they would read a news article about bizarre human behavior, and would have to guess whether the bizarre behavior occurred in Germany or Florida. So the idea of weird Florida behavior has been out there for many years.
 
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