text: The victim of the vicious flesh-eating attacker on the MacArthur Causeway on Saturday has been identified as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, The Miami Herald has learned. 
   
   Poppo remains in critical condition at Ryder Trauma Center with horrific facial injuries. 
   
   His attacker, killed by Miami police at the crime scene, has also been identified as Rudy Eugene, who as a teenager in the late 1990s played high school football at North Miami Beach High. 
   
   How the men's paths crossed in such a violent act remains unclear. 
   
   More recently, court records show that Eugene was married in 2005 and divorced in 2007. According to the filing, he had no income and his assets included $2 cash and $50 for a cellphone. 
   
   His former wife, Jenny Ductant, agreed to take on the couple's debt, which included the power and phone bills. 
   
   "I don't want to talk about it," she said Tuesday when reached on her cellphone. 
   
   The man Eugene attacked remained in extremely critical condition Monday at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Much of his face was gone, the skin ripped away, the nose bitten and the eyes gouged. 
   
   What remained was his goatee and little else. 
   
   Photos of the scene with Eugene and his victim quickly went viral on the Internet Monday. 
   
   Were hoping that he pulls through, for his well-being, but also so he can tell us what happened, said Sgt. Javier Ortiz, vice president of the Miami police union. Only he knows. 
   
   Details about Eugene's life in South Florida were emerging on Tuesday. 
   
   As a teenager, he lived in North Miami-Dade, attending North Miami Beach High and North Miami High, where he was on the football team. 
   
   The Miami Herald has obtained photographs of Eugene from North Miami Beach High yearbooks. One photograph was taken in 1997; the other was taken in 1998 when he was a junior. A group shot of the high school football team incudes Eugene. 
   
   Eugene transferred to North Miami Senior for his final year of high school, North Miami Beach Principal Raymond Fontana said on Tuesday. 
   
   He was killed by police on Saturday as a macabre scene unfolded about 2 p.m. on the MacArthur Causeways off-ramp to Biscayne Boulevard just south of the Miami Herald building. A Road Ranger spotted Eugene and his victim in what appeared to be a violent struggle and shouted on his loudspeaker for the naked attacker to back away. 
   
   One witness said he was riding his bicycle on the MacArthur when he saw a man tearing off pieces of the victims flesh with his mouth. After an officer approached, Larry Vega told WSVN-FOX7, The guy just stood, his head up like that, with pieces of flesh in his mouth. And he growled. 
   
   Eugene left behind few clues as to what could have prompted the attack. 
   
   I wouldnt say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him . .. No one was for him, everyone was against him, his ex-wife told WPLG. 
   
   He had just one arrest to suggest serious violence. Miami Beach police arrested him on a battery charge when he was 16, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The charge was later dropped. 
   
   He was arrested seven other times over five years. Court records show that one was for misdemeanor battery, one was for vending near a school, one was for trespassing and four involved marijuana. 
   
   The last case came in September 2009. In January, the charge was dropped. 
   
   During Saturdays attack, an officer approached and told Eugene to get off his victim, but Eugene ignored the order and kept chewing, even after the officer shot him once. 
   
   The officer fired again, hitting him several more times, eventually killing him. The name of that officer was not released. 
   
   Security video from the adjacent Miami Herald building captured snippets of the violence as the two men  one dead, the other gravely injured and wearing only a shirt  lay on the sidewalk as officers arrived. . 
   
   Days later, the chatter, theories and questions continued. The ghoulish event even spawned a Twitter account, dubbed The Miami Zombie. 
   
   An emergency room doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital said Eugenes attack could have been induced by bath salts, a drug nicknamed after the bathroom product it resembles. 
   
   Police theorized earlier that it was cocaine psychosis, a drug-induced craze that bakes the body internally and often leads those it affects to strip naked to try to cool off. 
   
   Investigators asked any witnesses who have not stepped forward to call the Miami police homicide unit at 305-603-6350. 
   
   Miami Herald writers Luisa Yanez and Daniela Guzman contributed to this report, which includes information from Miami Herald news partner WFOR CBS 4. ||||| MIAMI - 
   
   Sources identified the man who was shot and killed by police while biting off parts of another man's face near Downtown Miami on Saturday. 
   
   Police sources identified the man as Rudy Eugene. 
   
   Police said Eugene, 31, was found attacking another man near the west end of the MacArthur Causeway and Biscayne Boulevard on Saturday afternoon. 
   
   "When the officer approached him, told him to stop, pointed a gun at him, he turned around and growled like a wild animal and kept eating at the man's face," Fraternal Order of Police President Armando Aguilar said Sunday. 
   
   A witness said Eugene was biting off pieces of the other man's face and tossing them aside. He described it as looking like a scene out of The Walking Dead. 
   
   Police then shot and killed Eugene after attempting to stop the assault. 
   
   It's unclear what sparked the fight. 
   
   Aguilar said Eugene had likely overdosed, citing four past instances in Miami-Dade County when people overdosed on a type of LSD, removed their clothes, and became violent. 
   
   "It causes them to go completely insane and become very violent," said Aguilar. 
   
   The victim, a homeless man who frequents the same area where he was nearly killed, is listed in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital. 
   
   Aguilar said 75 to 80 percent of the victim's face was missing. 
   
   Both men have had prior run-ins with law enforcement. Miami-Dade court records for both show both men have been arrested for mostly a handful of misdemeanors. 
   
   Who is Rudy Eugene? 
   
   Eugene was previously married. He met his now ex-wife in high school at North Miami Beach Senior High. 
   
   Their marriage was short-lived, lasting a year and a half. 
   
   "I wouldn't say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him type of attitude. No one was for him, everyone was against him," said Eugene's ex-wife. 
   
   The two filed for divorce in 2007 during a violent point in their relationship. 
   
   The woman told Local 10's Terrell Forney that Eugene became increasingly violent toward her. 
   
   "That's why I left," said Eugene's ex-wife. 
   
   The two had not spoken in three or four years. 
   
   A woman who answered the door at Eugene's former North Miami Beach home told Local 10 that the prior family had lost the 1-story house to foreclosure in 2011. 
   
   However, Eugene would often pop up to the home unannounced, often looking for mail, which made the new family uncomfortable. 
   
   "He kind of looked weird a little bit but other than that I said as long as I've got bats and got the alarm system put up, I was okay," said the woman. 
   
   The homeless, who camp near where it all happened, say they knew Eugene. They saw him frequently in that area walking around confused. 
   
   "I was actually talking to him the other day," one homeless man said. "It's pretty weird."
target: – The Miami man shot dead as he chewed off another man's face has been identified as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene. He had a criminal record but nothing on the scale of Sunday's crazed attack, the Miami Herald finds. He was arrested on a battery charge when he was 16, and was busted seven other times between 2004 and 2009 for charges including vending near a school, trespassing, and marijuana-related offenses. He was married for more than a year to a woman who says he became increasingly violent with her. "I wouldn't say he had mental problem, but he always felt like people was against him. No one was for him, everyone was against him," his ex-wife, who filed for divorce in 2007, tells WPLG. At Eugene's former home, a woman says the previous occupants lost the home to foreclosure last year, but Eugene would often turn up unannounced looking for mail. Eugene's victim, who lost most of his face in the attack, is fighting for his life in a local hospital, and police still aren't sure what prompted the horrific attack. They believe it could have been cocaine psychosis or an overdose of "bath salts," a synthetic drug one police spokesman likens to a potent new kind of LSD.