One man is dead and another hospitalized after a bizarre assault off Miami's MacArthur Causeway reportedly forced a police officer to open fire.

City of Miami police say the incident began Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. when an officer responded to reports of 2 men fighting in the bike path of the Biscayne Boulevard exit ramp, alongside the Miami Herald's parking garage. There, according to the Herald, the officer observed a naked man eating another man's face:

The officer...approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him.
The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.

According to CBS Miami, police sources said the victim had "virtually no face" and was unrecognizable.

"[Officers] attempted to separate them, there was some sort of confrontation," Miami Police spokesman Willie Moreno told Local10.

Photographs taken from the Herald's garage show the naked man lying dead at the scene. Police said the second male was transported to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Officials have yet to identify the officer involved, the deceased, or the victim. The incident snarled traffic on the causeway for hours during busy Memorial Day weekend as multiple lanes of vehicles were routed around the crime scene.

The first images have been released of Rudy Eugene, the homeless man shot and killed by Miami police as he ate another man’s face.

Eugene, 31, is thought to have been high on a powerful form of LSD when he attacked another homeless man, ripping off chunks of the man’s flesh with his teeth.

Both men were naked at the time of the attack.

The unidentified victim is currently fighting for his life in intensive care at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital hospital, after Eugene chewed off up to 80 per cent of his face, including his nose and eyes, in what hospital spokesperson called "some of the worst [injuries] staff had ever encountered."

Police were initially called to reports of two naked men fighting on the MacArthur Causeway bike path, which was packed with people heading to the annual Memorial Day hip hop festival at the time.

Witness Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami, "The guy was, like, tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him 'get off'...[but] the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like, ripping his skin."

Police initially repeatedly ordered Eugene to stop, but Mr Vega says he just “picked up his head and growled at the officer”.

Police then shot Eugene, but he carried on his attack, after which officers shot him several more times until he died.

Much of the attack was caught on the CCTV cameras of the office building that houses the Miami Herald newspaper. The images went viral in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Today, the Herald reported that Eugene left few clues about the cause of his attack, saying court records revealed he had married in December 2005, but divorced just over two years later.

“I wouldn’t say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him... No one was for him, everyone was against him,” his ex-wife told, Miami-based television station WPLG.

Eugene had previously been arrested on a battery charge when he was 16, but that charge was later dropped. He was arrested seven more time over the next five years, four times for marijuana offences, once for misdemeanour battery, once for vending near a school and once for trespassing.

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UPDATE, 5/27: While Miami Police remain tight-lipped about the incident, investigators are asking witnesses to contact authorities. The Herald reports detectives believe the victim may have been homeless and the naked man suffering from "cocaine psychosis," which could have prompted him to remove his clothing.

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Corpsesarefun wrote:

dæl wrote:What happens with reincarnation if we are all extinct?

Most forms of reincarnation have inter-species reincarnation.

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Or maybe... quick, someone do the math on what an exponential infection rate would look like and see if we are extinct on the 21st of December.

dæl wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:Shouldn't the apocalypse only come on the 21st of December? This is happening way to early!

Or maybe... quick, someone do the math on what an exponential infection rate would look like and see if we are extinct on the 21st of December.

Exponential infection rate I think is about 3 months, remember hearing that somewhere.

The CDC does actually have a plan in event of zombie attack.

dæl wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:Shouldn't the apocalypse only come on the 21st of December? This is happening way to early!

Or maybe... quick, someone do the math on what an exponential infection rate would look like and see if we are extinct on the 21st of December.

Exponential infection rate I think is about 3 months, remember hearing that somewhere.

The CDC does actually have a plan in event of zombie attack.

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

dæl wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:Shouldn't the apocalypse only come on the 21st of December? This is happening way to early!

Or maybe... quick, someone do the math on what an exponential infection rate would look like and see if we are extinct on the 21st of December.

Exponential infection rate I think is about 3 months, remember hearing that somewhere.

The CDC does actually have a plan in event of zombie attack.

wasn't there some furore after somebody looked at their councils safe guards and flagged up that there wasn't any for a Zombie attack?? Only in the Uk eh...

dæl wrote:What happens with reincarnation if we are all extinct?