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News: Face-attacker's mother: My son 'was no zombie'
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Face-attacker's mother: My son 'was no zombie'
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The mother of Rudy Eugene, who was shot and killed by a police officer as he chewed the face off a homeless man in Miami, says her son was "a nice kid" who could have been subdued with a Taser rather than gunfire.
"He was a good kid. He gave me a nice card on Mother’s Day. Everyone says he was a zombie. He was no zombie. That was my son,” the mother, who asked that her name not be revealed, told CNN affliate WFOR.
Eugene, 31, was killed by a police officer on Saturday after an 18-minute attack on a homeless man, identified by police as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo. Video of the incident shows Eugene coming across Poppo on a sidewalk along Miami's MacArthur Causeway, stripping clothes off him and eventually chewing on his face.
Police said Poppo lost 75% of his face in the attack. He was in critical condition at a Miami hospital.
Eugene's mother said police didn't need to shoot her son.
"They could have tased him," she told WFOR. "I saw what happened on TV and I started crying.”
Eugene's girlfriend, who also requested anonymity from WFOR, said the attacker seen in that video was nothing like the man she lived with.
“He loved God. He always read the Bible. He would give you knowledge on the Bible. Everywhere he went his Bible went. When he left he had his Bible in his hand,” the girlfriend is quoted as saying.
“That wasn’t him, that was his body but it wasn’t his spirit. Somebody did this to him,” WFOR quotes her as saying.
Fraternal Order of Police President Armando Aguilar told CNN affiliate WPLG that he suspects Eugene was under the influence of "bath salts," a drug that contains synthetic stimulants that can "cause chest pains, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, agitation, hallucinations, extreme paranoia, and delusions," according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
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http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoft...tal-attack.cnn
Source: CNN
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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I mean I feel sorry for his family but he ate a mans face and I don't think a taser would of stopped him. 
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That mother is delusional, shooting him was the right thing to do but obviously she would defend her own son.
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Member Since: 12/16/2008
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Then he was either a zombie or was possessed?  , either of the choices sound coming from some terror film
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Maybe he was possesed
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I feel sorry for the mother but after seeing the picture of what her son did to someone's face, it was necessary.
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Even though he tried to kill you in 2004?
But, of course, a mother's love knows no bounds, and I'm a heartless bitch for digging into the past in the wake of this horrific event. It'd be so simple if we could just detach and stop caring about the people who cause us harm/will likely cause harm to others, but familial bonds make that difficult to do.
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Originally posted by Patrick
Even though he tried to kill you in 2004?
But, of course, a mother's love knows no bounds, and I'm a heartless bitch for digging into the past in the wake of this horrific event. It'd be so simple if we could just detach and stop caring about the people who cause us harm/will likely cause harm to others, but familial bonds will always prevent that.
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Wow 
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Sad.
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and I don't think he should have eaten another mans face off
I feel bad for her but even with a taser he probably woouldnt have stopped
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Zombie. ZOMBIE. I feel bad for the family too but shooting him was the right decision.
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Originally posted by Peep Show
That mother is delusional, shooting him was the right thing to do but obviously she would defend her own son.
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!!! Exactly how i feel.
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Somebody did this to him.
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No, he did it to himself by using BATH SALTS
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All this bible talk makes me think he was possessed but then again drugs can also do crazy **** to you. I hope we find out what drugs he was on, if any...
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Originally posted by Patrick
Even though he tried to kill you in 2004?
But, of course, a mother's love knows no bounds, and I'm a heartless bitch for digging into the past in the wake of this horrific event. It'd be so simple if we could just detach and stop caring about the people who cause us harm/will likely cause harm to others, but familial bonds make that difficult to do.
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Eugene's mother said police didn't need to shoot her son.
"They could have tased him," she told WFOR.
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yes, i'm sure the appropriate course of action to prevent a crazed man from eating the face of another man is to simply tase him rather than shoot him dead
kinda understand the mothers situation but lets be real, what the kid did is ****ed up on another level
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Cos he would tell you if he were a zombie, right?
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If I were the mom, I would act the exact same way. Maybe she's wrong when she said they should only tase him, but that's her son and she'd do anything to see him again. So I agree with her for the most part.
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I feel bad for the mother. But shooting him was the right thing in this occasion (and everyone knows i hate guns)
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“He loved God. He always read the Bible. He would give you knowledge on the Bible. Everywhere he went his Bible went. When he left he had his Bible in his hand,” the girlfriend is quoted as saying.
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Well that explains it.
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