Zombie-like student kills Florida couple, eats victim’s face

Austin Harrouff. PHOTO from Miami Herald

A university student in Martin County, Florida, was arrested on Monday after brutally murdering an elderly couple, injuring their neighbor and chewing one of his victims’ face like a wild animal.

According to reports from Miami New Times and Miami Herald, 19-year-old Austin Harrouff, who is a football athlete from Florida State University, was pleasantly dining with his parents at a local sports bar when he suddenly threw tantrums and left them. He then saw Michelle Mishcon, 53, and her husband John Stevens III, 59, bonding in their open garage. With an array of assault weapons including a switchblade, he savagely attacked the couple and a neighbor who tried to intervene.

Local police found Harrouff “grunting and growling” and “making animal noises” over one of the bodies while gruesomely tearing chunks out of the man’s face with his teeth.

Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told local media that the cops had difficulty wrenching and calming the suspect. They yanked him away from the victim and fired multiple shots, but the suspect appeared unperturbed. Even the police dog was unable to stop Harrouff.

“There was an enormous amount of violence in that garage,” Snyder said, who described the incident as “completely unprovoked and random attack.”

Other neighbors told authorities that the couple regularly sat in their garage with the door open. The neighbor who tried to ring 911 was stabbed multiple times and underwent surgery on Tuesday. Harrouff, who gave the cops a fake name, was confined in a hospital in Palm Beach County. A report by CBS 12 said Harrouff might have been high on flakka, a synthetic drug that causes delirium and adrenalin rush among its users.  Gianna Francesca Catolico