Although no official autopsy reports have been released of the so-called naked zombie attacker, many speculate a new street drug being called bath salts is to blame.
Marketed to its users as an alternative or stronger LSD, bath salts is a potentially deadly concoction made up from synthetic amphetamine like powders. Most first times users do not want to go back for a second helping, one anonymous user told me he “never had such a bad trip in my life, I had hallucinations, but they weren’t the fun kind like I’m used to with LSD. I saw terrifying images like demons trying to eat my soul and black shadow people trying to enter my mom’s body while she dozed on the couch. When I woke her up to warn her, she called 911” He related that at the hospital they said there was nothing they could do for him as they found nothing in his system after running a drug screen.
He was kept in the hospital for a week at his mother’s insistence, where as he put it “The nightmare hell just went on and on, I was given sedatives to calm me down, but they only made me feel helpless to the demons I saw. So I shut up and waited it out.”
The above interview was taken from a former heavy drug user; Rudy Eugene was said to have not been a long time drug user. Longtime friend and former classmate, Erica Smith to The Palm Beach Post of Eugene “He did smoke (Marijuana), I’m not going to lie about that”, but went on to explain he was a before then normal guy who would go out of his way to help out his friends. All the effects of this drug are still unknown, as it is very new to the street scene.
Some of Eugene’s friends are wondering if perhaps he wasn’t accidently dosed or perhaps driven to try something new due to a nearly debilitating stent of depression. Or, perhaps his depression was due to the effects of the drug. Regarding his state-of-mind smith confided “Someone must have given him something really bad. A few days ago he told my brother he was really depressed and didn’t want to live anymore. He was a guy who just wanted a family and someone to love him.”
One of the most disturbing facts regarding this drug: It’s still legal in some US States. However, the company that distributes this drug to retails does put a warning on the label that reads amongst other this “not intended for human consumption.” Which is kind of a joke, considering it sells for about $60 a dose, and is supposedly a novelty trinket meant to be used as a decoration.
Perhaps as soon as the first of next week the toxicology screening will be back on the “Naked Zombie Attacker” and we will have some sort of insight into what made an otherwise normal human being begin to gnaw the face of a vulnerable homeless man.
