A college student at Florida State University brutally murdered a middle-aged couple in their garage Monday in a seemingly random attack, according to NBC News.
After receiving a 911 call from concerned neighbors, police arrived on the scene to find 19-year-old Austin Harrouff on top of the male victim eating his face. Police had to use tasers to remove Harrouff, leaving him in critical condition. “The suspect in this case was abnormally strong,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters at a press conference, NBC reports.
Before the attack, Harrouff was eating dinner at a restaurant with his parents when he stormed off, agitated about the slow service, officials stated.
The couple, John Stevens III, 59, and Michelle Mischon, 53, were stabbed multiple times, according to police, and were pronounced dead on the scene. Fellow neighbors described the two as a “loving couple,” PEOPLE magazine reports.
What makes this story even more messed up is there is no known motive behind the killings. Police are unsure why Harrouff attacked this couple, and say there is no known connection between any of them. “To all of us, none of this makes sense. There’s just not one thing in this case that seems to makes sense,” Snyder explained to NBC.
The possibility that Harrouff took flakka, a “zombie drug” that can cause intense hallucinations, is still being investigated as more blood sampling is being done on Harrouff. He is currently in the hospital in stable condition, according to WPTV.
“To say it’s sad somehow misses it. I’m not sure I have the words to tell you how I feel.” Snyder told CNN. That’s an accurate summary of how most of us probably feel about this tragic event.