( CNN ) -- The man whose face was chewed off by a naked man in a brutal assault in Miami says he does n't know why his attacker singled him out , according to CNN affiliate WFOR . `` He attacked me , '' Ronald Poppo said of his assailant in a police recording obtained by the affiliate and broadcast Thursday . `` He just ripped me to ribbons . He chewed up my face . He plucked out my eyes . Basically that 's all there is to say about it . '' Poppo , who is now blind , said he initially thought Rudy Eugene , 31 , was `` a good guy . '' `` But he just went and turned berserk , '' he recalled of the May incident . `` He apparently did n't have a good day at the beach and he -- he was coming back . And I guess he took it out , took it out on me or something . I do n't know . '' Poppo 's statements were made and recorded during a July 19 interview with Miami police . Eugene was killed by a police officer after the 18-minute attack , which was captured by on video by a surveillance camera . It shows Eugene coming across 65-year-old Poppo on a sidewalk along Miami 's MacArthur Causeway , stripping clothes off him and eventually chewing on his face . Police said Poppo lost 75 % of his face in the attack . A police official initially theorized that Eugene was under the influence of `` bath salts , '' a drug that contains synthetic stimulants that can `` cause chest pains , increased blood pressure , increased heart rate , agitation , hallucinations , extreme paranoia and delusions , '' according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse . But an autopsy and lab tests showed the man had used marijuana , and had no alcohol , other street drugs or prescription drugs in his system .
Poppo said he initially thought Rudy Eugene , however , was ` ` a good guy '' His statements were made and confirmed during a July 2012 interview with Miami Herald . Eugene was arrested by a police officer in May after the Miami shooting .