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Miami ‘Zombie’ Met Victim

FACE-EATING

While doing community service years before.

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Rudy Eugene, the Miami “zombie” who bit the flesh of a homeless man, met his victim years before the May attack, according to a new report. Eugene first encountered Ronald Poppo while handing out meals to the homeless as part of a community-service activity a few years ago. A friend who was with Eugene at the time said, “Poppo seemed like a nice and kind man. I remember when we gave him food.” Eugene destroyed about 80 percent of Poppo’s face during the gruesome attack, which only ended when police shot him to death.

Read it at The Miami Herald

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