The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is working to make sense of a double murder case in Tequesta, Florida, where a teenage suspect was found biting off a man’s face.
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According to reports, neighbor Jeff Fisher called 911 after he had been stabbed trying to stop an attack on 59-year-old John Joseph Stevens III and 53-year-old Michelle Karen Mishcon.
Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said Austin Harrouff was incoherent and making “animal-like noises” when he was taken to a hospital after the Monday night attack.
According to Snyder, Harrouff “was abnormally strong”.
A sheriff’s deputy has been watching Harrouff around the clock, Snyder said. Were the police protecting lying when they said they did not shoot due to the proximity of the victims and the attacker?
Harrouff, who had no criminal record, was listed in stable condition at a hospital Wednesday and was scheduled to undergo surgery on his hand. Scans for flakka or bath salts, which are part of a class of drugs alarmed health officials refer to as “new psychoactive substances”, will take longer to complete.
“Mina said (Austin) would say things like … he was here to protect people, and other such odd remarks”, said the report.
His parents, concerned about the agitated behavior, called police and his fraternity brothers in an attempt to track him down.
Police have said they believe Harrouff was on foot, walking towards his father’s home, when for unknown reasons he turned onto the street ahead of the one where his father lived.
Mina Harrouff called police to her home in The Shores development just before midnight Monday to report her son had abruptly left Duffy’s Sports Grill at about 8:30 p.m. about four miles away on Indiantown Road.
Neighbour Jeff Fisher, 47, tried to help but was stabbed during the attack.
“Anyway, I’m going to talk to you, and tell you why I don’t do ‘roids”, Harrouff said in one video. “It’s awful”, Stevens says he is grateful for his father’s friends who have come forward and offered to help with the children but “there is no real replacement for a grandfather”.
The mother of the man suspected of viciously killing two people in Martin County says her son believed he had super powers, according to an investigation released by Jupiter Police.
“It was a random, unprovoked brutal attack on people enjoying a quiet South Florida evening”, Snyder told The Post.
Attorney Michelle Suskauer told WPTV she’ll be representing Austin Harrouff if he survives. “We don’t know if anything is going to show up on toxicology or not”. This testing has samples of blood, hair and DNA. Also, the body temperature of flakka users usually spikes to about 105 degrees when they experience “excited delirium”, while Harrouff’s temperature at the hospital was a normal 97 degrees.
The sheriff said there was “an enormous amount of violence inside the garage” and the victims suffered from massive lacerations and an unusual amount of trauma.
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“He hasn’t been arrested yet, so his medical expenses will be on him and his family”, Sheriff Snyder said Friday.
