Cops reveal ‘cannibal’ teen accused of chewing off man’s face told them ‘I ate something bad…humans’
Florida cops said Austin Harrouff had to be pulled off body by police dog after a stun gun didn't work on him at 'gruesome' crime scene
COPS have revealed "cannibal" frat boy Austin Harrouff told deputies he had feasted on "humans" when police allegedly discovered him biting a man's face he had "stabbed to death."
According to a police report, which was released on Tuesday, he then begged the deputies to kill him after he was dragged away from John Stevens' lifeless body.
He told them: "Help me, I ate something bad'' and when cops asked him what he told them: "humans."
The report said his organs began to fail and he was rushed to St. Mary's Medical Center.
Harrouff, who was a student at the Florida State University also allegedly murdered the victim's wife Michelle Mishcon.
During the attack in August, he used a switchblade knife and "weapons of opportunity" which he found in the couple's garage.
The sheriff said it was one of the most gruesome crime scenes the officers who went to the couple's home had seen in years.
Harrouff was discovered in his underwear making animal noises, and biting Stevens face while he pinned the man to the driveway.
Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said he was ordered off the body at gunpoint, but an electric stun gun had to be used to get him off the body.
They didn't shoot at the scene in Tequesta, Florida, because at that point the deputies thought Stevens might still be alive.
They later found the body of Mishcon, 53, in the garage.
It took a dog to get Harrouff off Stevens and he then begged cops: "Shoot me now, I deserve to die."
John Stevens and his wife Michelle Mishcon were both dead in the garage where neighbours said they often sat in the evening when officers arrived and had to pull the teen off of Stevens body
He is also accused of stabbing neighbour Jeff Fisher, 47, who tried to save the couple, but had to retreat after being wounded. He called 911 to come to the scene.
Harrouff is thought to have taken the synthetic drug flakka, however the FBI is still trying to determine if that was the case.
A female officer fired a Taser stun gun several times at the "abnormally strong" young athlete before four deputies and a K9 attack dog eventually managed to stop the rampage.
The crazed killer was in a coma for 11 days after the attack and spent two months in hospital after he drank caustic lawn chemicals.
Her suffers burns to his throat and pneumonia.
Harrouff gave an interview to US show Dr Phil while in hospital, but it has yet to air out of respect to the victim's family.
Prosecutors say they are asking a grand jury to indict Harrouff on first-degree murder charges, which means he could get the death penalty.
While still in his hospital bed, he gave a phone interview with the Dr. Phil show which was due to air last week.
Last month Harrouff transferred from St. Mary's Hospital to the Martin County Jail where he is now being held.
He was then officially arrested and charged one attempted murder charge and two counts of murder.
Sheriff William Snyder said at the time the crime was "perplexing" and said Harrouff gave a false name, Austin Michael Moore, to police.
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He said: "It's inexplicable. One of the first tings we try to do at a crime scene is try to understand the motive of the offender, because it is the motive of the offender that gets us going in the right direction.
"In this case, we can't establish a motive. It's 'I don't know'."
Officials said Harrouff's parents were so worried by his behaviour after he stormed out of the restaurant that they called police and members of his college fraternity in a futile attempt to find him before the attack.
The 14st six-footer, the son of a dentist, was studying exercise science at Florida State University and was a keen wrestler and American footballer.
Former teammates of the murderer described him as a harmless teen ‘who wouldn’t hurt a fly’.
Quarterback Matt Dame told The Palm Beach Post: “The coaches would always try to get him mad and play angry, and he never had it in him.
“I didn't think he would hurt a fly.”
While Joey Bashwiner, 19, who went to middle school with Harrouff, said: “He seemed like a pretty normal kid. Nothing wrong, just quiet.”
Last night, he was under armed guard at a hospital in Palm Beach where his condition was said to be deteriorating following the struggle to subdue him.
Tests have ruled out heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine use but more complex synthetic drugs such as flakka take longer to show up.
Mr Snyder said: "The suspect in this case was abnormally strong.
"I'm not going to speculate except to say that we know in our business that people on flakka would do this type of behaviour where they attack their victim and they do the biting and actually remove pieces of flesh."
John Stevens ran lawn business and his wife was the daughter of former North Miami Beach mayor Jeffrey Mishcon.
Neighbour Amy Lourie said the couple would often sit in the garage with the door open while watching television and wave and talk to passersby while their Labrador retriever played in the yard.
She said they would also drive around the neighbourhood in their golf buggy with the dog sitting with them. "It was the cutest thing" she said.
The neighbour who tried to save them was named as Jeff Fisher, 47, a close friend of the victims.
His father Steve Fisher said his son was stabbed five times: once in the neck, three times in the back and once in the side. He is expected to survive after emergency surgery.
The gory double murder echoes the infamous "zombie" face-eater case in Miami in 2012.
Rudy Eugene, the "causeway face attacker", chomped a homeless man's face in a random attack while high on cannabis.
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