Over the weekend we at ZZN brought you up-to-date information on the bizarre “Miami Zombie Case” as it unfolded. Today a new witness came forth to a Miami News Station with statements on what he saw. What you are about to read is gruesome, gory, and may be considered offensive to some readers. Discretion is advised.
A man by the name of Larry Vega came forward to WSVN-TV in Miami. He said that he was riding his bicycle off the MacArthur Causeway on Saturday when he witnessed the attack that has swept the nation as a possible Zombie Attack.
“He was ripping into his face with his teeth, he was ripping his skin, his neck,” Vega said. “He had him held down, the guy couldn’t move and he was tearing into his flesh. The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, ‘Get off!’ You know, it’s like the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin… It’s one of the most gruesome things I’ve ever seen in my life in person.”
Vega then flagged down the police officer and continued to watch as the officer ended the “confrontation”. “Police officer came over, told him several times to get off and a police officer climbed over the divider and got in front of him and said, ‘Get off!’ And told him several times and the guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled,” Vega said.
According to WSVN-TV, the victim lost 75 percent of his face.
The “Miami Zombie” now has a name. The Miami Herald reported that the attacker was 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, a divorcee who’s ex wife described him as some one who did not have a “mental problem but he always felt like people was against him. … No one was for him, everyone was against him. That’s why I left.”
We have come in posession of an image from the scene of the crime. It is extremely graphic, due to its graphic nature, we have chosen to allow those wishing to view the picture the ability to do so by clicking HERE.
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Whos to say that drugs arent going to be the cause of the ZA? Bad drugs creating flesh hungry animals who dont respond to physical harm isnt to hard to except. Think of zombieland but instead of mad cow disease its pcp:)
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I look at it from the positive aspect: This is actually the best case senerio for the inevitable world collapse. This way you will be shooting zombies instead of real people. No guilt complex to worry about.
To be honest the cops are covering it up as always trying to ruin the fun and not spread the good word of zombies. We know that the old man in the hospital bed has been bitten by a zombie. Drugs are a bunch of bull crap especially when drugs don’t make you get shot 7 times till you drop dead. He also growled at the officer to which means that he was not human. I feel like its a battle between the citizens and the police officers since the citizens are saying zombies and the police officers are saying its its drugs. I am gonna go with the citizens and go with zombies. I have seen people on drugs in NY like LSD and PCP and they don’t chew on peoples faces. Why cant they do anything right and just recognize that we are in a zombie apocalypse and not some game. Not only that but what if this guy Rudy Eugene went and bit anyone else in the state. Then what it will spread like wildfire and then we will be saying we told you so.
hate to break it to you, but people on pcp do this kind of shit. google “my daddy ate my eyes” and you’ll see what im talking about. drugs can do this to you, make no mistake about it
Zombie apocalypse my ass.What is wrong with you people???Whats next, Vampire apocalypse. hahahhahaha…Its very sad what happened few days ago, i wish the recovery for the victim and also RIP for the attacker,he wasnt in his right state of mind and drugs on the streets these days can make people do crazy shit.
Even if this had something to do with zombies, they wouldn’t release it to the public. So of course their gonna say it was cause of something else. Onlything we can do is sit back and wait to see if it happens again. If it does then we’re onto something.
Why is the victim’s pants off????
@ clairechris
One of the side effects of the class of drug most likely to do this can be a sharp rise in body temp that can make one feel as though they are overheating and their clothing becomes stifling. This is going on while having optical and auditory hallucinations. When a human being gets that hot (or believes they are that hot) they will strip. Human nature. Survival before all else.
Based on the information at hand, it is likely that both men took the “bad LSD” at the same time and the attacker simply got finished undressing all of the way before the attack. I hope that helps.
In another pic they show the victim with a shirt on and there looks to be a pair of jean shorts lying on the concrete nearby which leads me to believe that the victim was clothed at least up to the time or shortly before the attack. There’s no sign of any clothes lying around from the attacker so when he approached he was already naked. Did the attacker pull the victim’s pants off or did the victim take them off on his own and if so why? Lots of weird things with this story.
Apparently this was the fourth case like this. Where the people affected just happened to act like zombies? I wonder if we will be given information on the other 3 incidents involving this drug.
Specifically:
In the other three cases involving this “drug”, what happened to the Affected? Were they killed too or did they recover?
If the Affected were killed, what happened to the bodies?
They said growling and chewing. Did the Affected bite anyone? And if so, did the bite victims magically become affected by the “drug”?
What are the names of the other 3 Affected and what are the names and statuses of any bite victims?
http://wreg.com/2012/05/28/man-shot-after-eating-face-of-another-man/
Phoenixmatthias…your post is right on the money with the questions asked. However, I think your term of calling them “affected” is incorrect. It appears that the correct term may now be “infected.”. Regardless, the answers to your questions are needed.
So… I looked at the pic. I was a medical professional and have seen my share of shocking sights.
I would like to point out the attacker had no (none, zero, not a one) head injuries or head shots. While his certificate of death may list the cause as “multiple gun shot wounds to the torso,” truthfully, people die one way from a gun shot wound to any place but the head and neck (I’m giving certain people the benefit of “decapitation by shotgun blast to neck”); the brain suffocates from lack of oxygen. That is how that young man died when that cop shot him.
We can argue all day long about fast/slow, virus/mystic, and decapitation/head-shot all day long, but most of us agree that the person has to be dead first in order to become “undead.” That man stopped because he finally died.
So…. sorry to disappoint those who want the zombie Apocalypse. If this was in fact an appetizer of the Zombies to come, it won’t be much of an apocalypse. With zombies that can be stopped with sheer body trauma, the authorities will have it in wraps before you can even get to your gear.
And on a personal note:
While we are all on this site for the same reason (fun! right? and ‘cuz zeds are cool) lets also try to remember that a man was attacked, lost his face, and may lose his life. Another man had to be gunned down by police do to a drug induced madness (which I’m sure was not how he had planned his memorial day weekend), and several people witnessed the entire thing in person. (Think about that for a minute, that likes you coming out of your office and seeing this on the bench a few yards away. Right there in front of you: no screens, video cameras out of shot, or anything else fake)
I have seen some pretty awful stuff said on this story throughout the internet (though not on this site, yay!). It’s easy to forget that there are *people* involved in this tragedy; that there are PEOPLE that have lost a family member or have witnessed one of the most horrific sights a person can witness. It’s easy to look at stills of feet and gore and crime scenes and then post comment that forgets that PEOPLE were hurt, traumatized, and killed. If it gets to intense for you, you can hit the back button or change the channel. The PEOPLE involved in this cannot.
Please be respectful of the victims and their families when commenting thought the internet. I’m not a mod or some softy, push-over, la-la, fluffy chick; I just believe in not making an awful situation unbearable for those who have no say-so in their involvement.
~~KG
Well said KG!
Thanks for the comments KG, This is precisely why we provided a link to the pic instead of posting it in the article. To give those people who wanted to see it a choice.
I’ve followed this story very closely and it is easy to become detached and forget about the people involved. This is I try to say plausible zombie instead of out and out calling him one.
Wonderfully said. Thanks for reminding people of the REAL world consequences and causes of this tragedy.
Indeed good sir
Nothing says that things would have to follow the “rules” of the movies or other zombie media. Maybe it takes a shot to the heart or just enough shots to cause enough blood loss. Even if it were some kind of “brain fever” that was contagious it could still be classified as a zombie and would still be a real danger of becoming an epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. I’ve always believed that if there ever were something like a “real” ZA, it would be more like what happened in 28 Days Later than in Night of the Living Dead anyway.
@ AJD
I HOPE it’s like 28 days later. We can handle that. Our military is prepared to wipe out hordes with trauma. And it would be cheap too. Remember, in the movie, they quarantined the infection. “What do you do with a diseased little island?” The only reason there was a “second outbreak” is because someone wanted to make a sequel.
Like I said, if the young man shot was in fact a Zombie, then I am not afraid of the Z-Conflict at all.
I don’t know KG….those MF’s in 28 Days Later were pretty fast and way more violent than the zombies in NOTLD or TWD! LOL I think I’d rather take on a NOTLD or TWD zombie than a 28 Days Later “infected” person.
@AJD
I agree, I would rather face “walkers” too. I just don’t think I’ll have to face these types of Zombies. They are too easy to kill in mass. We got very good as a species in the past 100 years at killing lots of people at once.
The proposed “shot to the heart” or “bleeding out” still lead to the zombie stopping because of the brain dying by lack of oxygen. Firebombing doesn’t work on “Head Shot” zombies because they don’t need oxygen for the brain to survive. If they did, which they do if they can die by either proposed method, then they would have to breath. They would breath in the fire which would destroy their lungs and stop oxygen from getting to the brain, dead zombie by firebomb.
Same thing with grenades and anything else. 
Now, i think we can further agree that NO ONE wants the combo Head-Shot/28 Days/Hyper Zombie. LOL! Because if that is what’s coming my way, I’m gonna studio 54 my way to the next life.
Actually firebombing might work to a point because the heat would basically cook the brain. I’ve proposed that the reason that the military usually fares badly in zombie movies and in TWD and why that could happen in real life is because of the idea of “not leaving a man behind” and saving people. They’re fighting off zombies, they’re going to be bringing wounded soldiers and civilians behind the lines and in the early stages not thinking about them being bitten/infected and dying and coming back…so they bring these people behind the lines, they die, come back and now they’re fighting the enemy behind their lines too which is always a bad situation.
@AJD
Firebombing would eventually stop the Zed, but, not before the suckers walk up to you and give you a flaming hug.
The human skull is built to protect the brain and it does it’s job well. In a firebomb, it could take as long as 30 minutes before actual brain tissue is damaged (because in head-shot Z’s, you have to destroy brain tissue with trauma. Swelling in the brain just won’t do it.). That is a long time to be making Z’s more dangerous by being on fire.
Max Brooks covers why traditional military tactics and weapons don’t work on Zeds in his book ‘ World War Z.’ That being said, it was written a number of years ago. Considering that the average age of a front line soldier in the military today is about 21, it is safe to assume that a large enough portion of are military are “Zombie Aware.” So is the public for that matter.
Also:
http://www.zombiezonenews.com/archives/world-health-organizations-recognize-zombie-threat/
So, I’m still planning for my slow-movers only.
And if I’m wrong, it will literally come around to bite me, but I’m okay with that. 
Well likely if they’re firebombing any living around there are going to be dead too LOL I know I wouldn’t be hanging around for it if I could help it. LOL
what kind of “medical professional” says “do” instead of “due”? and like a bunch of people here said, i dont remember any “rules” to a zombie apocalypse. and for police and military to put a bullet in a head as opposed to a torso its not a drastic increase in difficulty. most can do it easily
I’m a writer and I can get to typing fast and make mistakes like that too….not that big a deal. The only thing to consider about the military thing is that they’re not really “trained” to take head shots. They’re trained to shoot in the “deadly triangle” of the chest/torso area….so in the beginning of a ZA type thing, that would be what they would do and it would be ineffective. They’d have to throw out their training which can be a difficult thing to do when you’ve had a certain way of doing something drilled into your head. Of course they can do a head shot, it’s just overcoming the unconscious drilled training of the chest/torso shot….and that’s even if a “real” zombie would follow any of the rules of the movie/TV zombies which is unlikely….though I do have to say, a head shot is probably going to kill anything 100% of the time no matter what the “rules” are LOL
I only have one problem with what you said… There are three types of zombies, voodoo (mind controlled) zombies, undead (brought back from the dead) zombies, and infected (caused by virus or poison) zombies.
One does not have to die and come back to be a zombie. Odds are if a zombie apocalypse were to happen it would be “infected zombies” and while I think this was just a guy on drugs, it could have easily been an “infected.”
Exactly TADA. That’s what I’ve been saying. The chances are higher that it was drug induced (even though even as far as drugs go it seems pretty damned abnormal)…but it’s irresponsible I feel of the authorities to just be throwing out these “theories” about it being drugs and not only that but that it was this drug or that drug. First it’s cocaine, then LSD, then some “new” form of LSD, then this “bath salts” stuff (which is NOT new BTW, has been around for a couple years at least and never heard of it making anyone into a cannibal either…) and as many people on the internet have pointed out, the intoxicating agent in “bath salts” is NOTHING like LSD and is not any form of it, it’s a totally different mechanism. It’s irresponsible not only because they don’t know yet and have not gotten a tox screen back yet I’m sure (usually that takes weeks) but also because it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it could be caused by something pathogenic. There are viruses, bacteria and parasitic infections of the brain that have been known to cause aggressive and violent behavior. They could be saying “it’s drugs” and people saying “oh ok….just drugs….nothing to see here….” when there could possibly be something people need to be concerned about as far as their own health and safety going on (beyond being concerned about attacks from drug addicts), even if that possibility is remote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJamgBtVyg
at 1:22 the witness says he was tearing up ears, nose, etc. and “teariar ng it up then throwing it away”. He makes the motion as if he was spitting it out. I’ve been obsessing over this story for hours thinking the Zombie apocalypse is really happening but hearing that leads me to believe this dude was just nuts. Wanting to just tear up this other man’s face as opposed to being hungry for flesh. As mush as I love zombie movies and books…I do not want that to be reality. I’m not even 21 yet.
Bear in mind that the parts he may have been spitting out could have been bone and/or gristle. Things that he may not have been able to break down, swallow or consume.
@Big D
I highly doubt a flesh eating zombie would have the presence of mind to decide whether or not bone and/or gristle tastes good to him. Just sayin.
They’re saying it’s LSD or Mophedrone, but I can’t find any source on LSD or Mophedrone making people flip out, become cannibals, and ignore external stimuli. Wouldn’t a super-aggressive person attack, not ignore? Especially while being shot?
This is some other drug, I’d think. Assuming it’s not actually a zombie attack. If it is, hey, looks like the cops got ahead of it.