She didn’t know that about 45 minutes after leaving, according to police, he killed 53-year-old Michelle Mishcon and 59-year-old John Stevens in a random attack. “The Harrouff family loves Austin as they know the Stevens and Mischon families loved John Stevens III and Michelle Mischon”.
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Austin Harrouff, 19, will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder and burglary, according to a statement from Trisha Kukuvka, a spokeswoman for Martin County Sheriff William Snyder.
“The suspect in this case apparently was abnormally strong”.
Harrouff was sedated and transported to a hospital suffering from the effects of the powerful drug.
Flakka, nicknamed “gravel”, has recently been banned in the United Kingdom and U.S. because of the “excited delirium” it causes.
Four days before the murders, Harrouff posted a video saying he didn’t need drugs.
Austin left after getting into an argument during dinner with his father, Jupiter dentist Wade Harrouff, according to the Jupiter police report made after the service call to the Harrouff home.
Harrouff’s mother, Mina Harrouff, still unaware of the attack, told Jupiter Police Offficer Luis Rocha later that night that her son had been acting strangely for about a week, claiming he had superpowers and that he was “here to protect people”, the report said. Snyder told reporters police had to get “the flesh out of his teeth”. She said certain illegal drugs on the market can produce behavior like that of the suspect’s.
The neighbor was hospitalized with serious injuries, but is expected to recover, authorities said. His father lives one street away from where the attack occurred.
A neighbour, Jeff Fisher, called 911 and had tried to intervene but was stabbed repeatedly with wounds to his neck and back. She told the dispatcher he believed he was carrying a pocket knife, but, “I think that is all he has on him”.
“We are very proud of Jeff and the courage he has shown while attempting to help his friends and neighbors”, the statement said, and asked for privacy. Snyder said Harrouff used “weapons of opportunity” in the killings, which occurred at around 9:20 p.m., and a large switchblade was found. But certainly, there are mental health issues that are going to have to be investigated here. “We don’t know if anything is going to show up on toxicology or not”, Suskauer said.
Authorities are still awaiting lab test results. – miami.cbslocal.comDetectives said Wednesday they served a search warrant for additional testing of his blood, hair and DNA.
The condition can cause paranoia and hallucinations that can make the user violent and raise a person’s body temperature to unsafe levels.
“He hasn’t been arrested yet, so his medical expenses will be on him and his family”, Sheriff Snyder said Friday. Bath salts change you, there’s no doubt about it!
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Investigators are still trying to piece together the sequence of events that led to an attack on a Florida couple in which a 19-year-old college student is accused of killing them and biting the man’s face.
