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"A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack in Miami told police his attacker \"just ripped me to ribbons.\"In a recorded interview, Ronald Poppo told investigators the man who approached him initially seemed friendly. But Poppo said Rudy Eugene then turned \"berserk\" and attacked him, chewing on Poppo's face and plucking at his eyes.A transcript of the July 19 interview was obtained by WPBF 25 News.Poppo said Eugene had just returned from Miami Beach and was \"acting nice\" for a while, but then he \"got a little bit flustered.\"\"He apparently didn't have a good day the beach,\" Poppo told investigators.Poppo said Eugene kept repeating that he \"didn't like the beach for something. He said he wasn't scoring there or something. He went to the beach to score or something.\"That's when Eugene attacked him unprovoked, Poppo said.\"He chewed up my face,\" Poppo told investigators. \"He plucked out my eyes.\"Poppo said Eugene \"was talking kind of funny talk\" during the assault and telling Poppo he was going to die.\"I certainly didn't curse at the guy or say anything mean or nasty to him,\" Poppo told investigators when asked what prompted Eugene to attack him.Poppo remains hospitalized. He lost an eye, his eyebrows, his nose and parts of his forehead and cheek in the attack.Eugene was shot and killed by a Miami police officer during the May 26 attack. Lab tests found only marijuana in Eugene's system, but no other drugs or alcohol.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | Social9146236"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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