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. The victim, a homeless man who frequents the same area where he was nearly killed, is listed in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital. 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. 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. And he growled. 
 
 Eugene left behind few clues as to what could have prompted the attack. "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, his ex-wife told WPLG. Miami Beach police arrested him on a battery charge when he was 16, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Their marriage was short-lived, lasting a year and a half. Court records show that one was for misdemeanor battery, one was for vending near a school, one was for trespassing and four involved marijuana. "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.
– 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.