Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said the victim described it to him, as a “cannonball”. The woman reportedly hit Gallo on the head with a metal baseball bat and her son held Gallo down until police arrived. And recently, a second violent attack in Florida emerged but it is said that a new “zombie” drug is to be blamed.
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During the break-in, the woman said she thought about the August 15 attack when 19-year-old Austin Harrouff is accused of killing a local couple, in southern Martin County, biting husband’s face and abdomen and fending off deputies, a police K-9 and a Taser, Snyder said.
The attack was in the same county where a 19-year-old Florida State University student was accused of attacking a couple on August 15.
The woman’s adult son came to her aid and and fought down against the attacker, who told him he was on flakka, according to the website.
A short time later, the man jumped through the plate-glass window. He’s just going insane.
They took him by ambulance to a hospital because ‘he was too violent to be placed in a rescue helicopter, ‘ deputies said.
The woman was treated for glass cuts to an arm.
Police say Gallo showed “extreme strength” and a “high tolerance for pain”, which is similar to what was seen when another Florida teen high allegedly on the bath salt-style drug exhibited when he literally tried to eat a couple’s faces and stomachs just a couple weeks prior.
His family issued an apology Tuesday to the woman and her son. They did not know their victims and it seemed they had consumed the same synthetic or designer drug.
“I need police. I got somebody just broke in my house”. In that attack, deputies said Harrouff, who was home for summer break from Florida State University, stabbed and beat John Stevens, 59, and his wife Michelle Mishcon, 53.
Harrouff is still in the hospital, but the sheriff says not for long.
The officers said they found similarities in the nature of both attacks. He has regained consciousness for brief periods but has not yet been able to provide a statement.
The sheriff’s office released images of capsules of the drug investigators said Gallo took before his attack, though the sheriff said Gallo told his victims he had taken a different bath salt called Flakka.
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He also faces charges for attacking a neighbor who tried to help Stevens and Mishcon.
