A Florida teen broke into a family's house high on a "bath salt-like drug" and attacked them, according to the New York Daily News. The attack is the second from a Florida teen this month. In the first, a Florida State University teen reportedly high on Flakka fatally stabbed a married couple, as well as a neighbor who tried to intervene, before eating part of the husband's face.
This most recent attack happened Sunday in Stuart, Fla. when 19-year-old Nico Gallo broke into a house, said Martin County Sheriff William Snyder. According to Snyder, the woman said Gallo tried to open the front door to the house while he called out, "Sorry, I'm going to die." Snyder said Gallo then broke the front window with his hand and did a "cannonball" through it. Gallo grabbed the woman as she screamed for her adult son. The woman reportedly hit Gallo on the head with a metal baseball bat and her son held Gallo down until police arrived. Gallo showed "extreme strength and a high tolerance to pain," according to a statement from deputies.
Gallo is said to have told the family he attacked that he had taken Flakka, but Snyder said a witness told police he and Gallo took LSD in addition to a drug called methylone, a bath salt-like drug. The woman's son walked away unharmed and the woman was hospitalized and later released for some cuts she received from broken glass.
Authorities caught Gallo on Sunday. He's currently hospitalized and could face charges for burglary and assault during a burglary.
