When the first deputy arrived, she had found Harrouff on top of the male victim (Stevens) who was laying in the drive-way of the home. Investigators are now trying to determine what set off Harrouff, a job that may require explaining the unexplainable. In this case, we can’t establish a motive.
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“We may absolutely never know why”, Martin County Sheriff Bill Snyder said.
It was at least the third face-biting related incident in South Florida in the past four years. Harrouff allegedly stabbed and killed Stevens and his wife, Michelle Karen Mishcon, 53.
That’s what the couple was likely doing around 9:20 p.m. when police say Harrouff happened past. “We understand it was in the direction of his dad’s house”.
Snyder said Harrouff had been at a Duffy’s restaurant in Jupiter with his parents earlier that evening when he became upset about the service and walked away.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to find out if it was Flakka”, Snyder said, but that won’t be known until toxicology reports are in.
Harrouff’s father, Wade B. Harrouff, lives close to the restaurant.
They and his university friends tried to intervene to calm him down and called the police over concerns. Snyder said at a later press conference that his condition has deteriorated significantly, and he may not survive.
FSU Police Maj. Jim Russell says the department has reached out to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office to offer any assistance if needed. However, he did not have the raised body temperature characteristic of flakka use.
Snyder said Harrouff has no criminal record and may have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he attacked the couple late Monday. There were signs the husband had tried to fight back, officials said.
MCSO says the suspect and victims knew each other, but the relationship is uncertain.
She said “it would be typical” for neighbor Jeff Fisher to try to rescue them.
Deputies were eventually pried him off the man’s body and took him into custody.
“He’s heavily sedated. last night he was intubated, so he was getting assistance to breathe, ‘ Snyder tells PEOPLE”.
“There is a girl laying on the ground”. Fisher was bleeding profusely and taken to a hospital. It’s “I don’t know”.
The sheriff said the circumstances of the case point to a designer drug that’s been terrorizing the state in recent years. Then two more deputies arrived in their vehicle and unleashed a K-9 unit, who tore at Harrouff, who was unfazed. “Then finally, after minutes of fighting, they were able to get the offender off of the victim, but the victim was dead”. The motive for the attack was not clear, but Moore may have been under the influence of some of type of drug, Snyder said.
“It’s like taking speed and losing your mind at the same time”, he said.
In June of 2012 in Miami, a man chewed the face off a homeless man on a causeway.
The sheriff said a motive for the attack is not known. “We get instances here in Florida where a man bit his baby; we get instances here in southern Florida where a man put this baby under water”.
The victims left behind a daughter, Ivy Stevens. They called it their “Garage-Ma-Hall”, according to the Miami Herald.
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Attempts to reach Fisher for comment were unsuccessful.
