College Student Kills Couple, Found Biting Face of Victim in Florida: Sheriff

Just last week, A 19-year-old student fatally stabbed a couple in their garage in Florida Monday night and was biting the dead man's face when officers subdued him, authorities said Tuesday.
Police believe Florida State University student Austin Harrouff attacked the couple at random shortly before 9:20 p.m. using "weapons of opportunity," and also wounded a neighbor who attempted to intervene, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters at a press conference.


The sheriff's office responded to the home in Tequesta after a neighbor called 911, and a deputy found Harrouff on top of the male victim's body in the driveway biting off pieces of his victim's face, Snyder said.
"It's inexplicable," Snyder said. "One of the first things 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."


Snyder said Harrouff joined his parents for dinner at a nearby restaurant around 8:30 p.m. but stormed off when he was agitated by the slow service. About 50 minutes later, police responded to the neighbor's 911 call of a man attacking the couple in their garage.
The victims, Michelle Mischon, 53, and John Stevens, 59, were pronounced dead on the scene, Snyder said. Martin County deputies were initially unsuccessful in getting Harrouff off of the victim with a stun gun and police dog, he said.

"The suspect in this case was abnormally strong," Snyder said. "We will be doing sampling of his blood to see if there was flakka or bath salts, which are known to cause what we call the excited delirium, and he did have some indications that we might be working with that."