FSU Student Austin Harrouff Might Die, Possibly Took Drug Flakka In Florida

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office says Austin Harrouff, a 19-year-old Alpha Delta Phi brother at Florida State University, was found biting at the face of John Stevens, 59, at his Tequesta home late Monday. When police arrived, they found the attacker leaning over the body of John Stevens and biting off chunks of his face in the couple’s driveway. Harrouff is being tested for a variety drugs, including bath salts and Flakka, CBS 12 in West Palm Beach reports.

“There was an enormous amount of violence in that garage”, Mr Snyder said, adding that there was no connection between the couple and Harrouff.

Police were called by a neighbour who tried to stop the attack at the couples’ home in Tequesta, Florida.

In the end, it took tasers, four police officers and finally a police dog to wrench Harrouff off of John Stevens. Fisher was bleeding profusely and taken to a hospital.

When a deputy arrived at the couples’ home, she used her Taser on Harrouff, but it didn’t faze him, Snyder said. “Nothing was working, using all the physical force they could muster”, Snyder said. He is conscious and expected to survive, though he has a breathing tube and is unable to speak, reports CBS affiliate WPEC. “That’s somebody with a lot more strength than you would normally encounter”.

Austin left after getting into an argument during dinner with his father, Jupiter dentist Wade Harrouff, according to the Jupiter police report made after the service call to the Harrouff home.

The Sheriff’s Department said in a release that initial tests showed no sign of street drugs such as marijuana, heroin or cocaine.

Harrouff’s family attorney, Michelle Suskauer, told NBC affiliate WPTV that there some questions in the case that may never be answered. No timeframe has been given for when she will actually be able to see her son. “We want to know everything we can about our suspect”. But certainly, there are mental health issues that are going to have to be investigated here.

The Sherrif said: “There’s not one thing in this case that seems to make sense”.

Sheriff William Snyder said Tuesday night that Harrouff’s condition had deteriorated and he had been in danger of dying. But they’re still looking into the synthetic drug flakka, otherwise known as bath salts!

According to a Washington Post story on the decline: “What happened in Florida, experts say, was the result of unprecedented coordination among local groups to fight flakka’s demand and – most importantly – the unusual willingness of the Chinese government to halt flakka’s production”. Cathinones are chemicals derived from the khat plant grown in the Middle East and Somalia, where the leaves are frequently chewed for a euphoric buzz.

And here’s the lede on a New Times feature: “In 2013, Austin Harrouff was starring as a defensive tackle at Suncoast Community High, a Palm Beach County school ranked among Newsweek’s ten best in America at least eight times in the past decade”.