Stephens was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The deputy fired her taser at Harrouff. He said it appeared to be a “completely unprovoked and random attack”. The couple has been identified as 59-year-old John Joseph Stevens III and 53-year-old Michelle Karen Mishcon.
He added that deputies found Michelle dead in the garage.
Before deputies arrived, a good Samaritan who tried to help was also seriously stabbed and is hospitalized, Snyder said.
Deputies also found a woman’s body inside of the garage of the home. That’s what they were likely doing when Harrouff came across them.
Harrouff is being held under guard at a hospital at a Palm Beach County hospital, where his condition is worsening and he may not live, said Martin County Sheriff Bill Snyder at a press conference, reports ABC News. “There was an extraordinary amount of violence in that garage”. “There were lacerations, stab wounds and blunt trauma”, Snyder said. “He was biting the victim on the face and removing pieces of his face”, said Snyder. Harrouff is being tested for a variety drugs, including bath salts and Flakka, CBS 12 in West Palm Beach reports.
She said she thought the residents of the home were a husband and wife and a daughter, said to be in her mid 20s.
When one deputy arrived, she says she saw Harrouff, 19, on top of another man in a driveway biting his face.
Related: What is flakka and what does it do to you? At least 16 deaths have been attributed to the cheap drug since September.
One user with what police called “superhuman strength” was recently found kicking in the hurricane doors at the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
But slight changes in purity or dose resulted in freaky or deadly reactions. He was a star high school football player and an excellent student, the Miami Herald reported. When a neighbor tried to intervene and called 911, Harrouf stabbed him too.
The suspect was initially identified by Snyder as 23-year-old Austin Michael Moore, according to the Palm Beach Post. She died three months later. “However, just a little bit more can trigger heart problems, agitation, aggressiveness, psychosis, paranoia and excited delirium”. However, flakka, the chemical cousin to bath salts, is not. It is known elsewhere in the country as “gravel” and, according to Reuters, has surfaced in Ohio, Chicago and Houston. “We’re all in the same boat, we’re trying to put this together”. The initial drug screen showed no evidence of the usual drugs, like cocaine and heroin, but the tests for more unique synthetic drugs are still out. He is a student at Florida State University, authorities said.
But tests are still pending for synthetic drugs such as flakka known to cause incredibly unusual outbursts.
The fatal attack occurred in the couple’s garage about 45 minutes later. Snyder said Harrouff’s body core temperature was low, which could indicate Flakka was not involved.
“He’s heavily sedated. last night he was intubated, so he was getting assistance to breathe, ‘ Snyder tells PEOPLE”.
Investigators say that leading up to the attack, Harrouff was at a sports bar with his fraternity brothers.
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Harrouff was charged with a double homicide and taken to a nearby hospital, where he remained in an unconscious state.
