I skimming through the www.news-leader.com. I was reading all the depressing headlines about Casey Anthony and 911 experiences I when came across this article. Milton Ellis who was sleeping in his electric wheelchair in front of a vacant Hooter restaurant when he was attacked by a woman whom he had befriended on that very night. According to reports, Josephine Smith had climbed on top of the man and had told him that she was a Vampire. She then proceeded to bite Milton Ellis's face and part of his lip. She was then arrested and charged with aggravated battery on an elderly person.
My first response to this article was curiosity. I wanted to find out more about this case. Fortunately, there was a link to the tampabay.com. I began reading further and was horrified by what I read.
I was curious about if Ellis had known the girl prior to the incident. According to the article, Smith was dropped of at a nearby corner and was awaiting for relatives to pick her up. Ellis was at a nearby vacant Hooters and seen her being dropped off. He went over to her and offered her his company until her ride had gotten there. The article never says why he was in front of a vacant Hooters, why he was sleeping out side, nor why Smith was dropped of at a corner. Ellis was attacked when he fell asleep. My question is why was he sleeping outside? This seems very questionable to me. The other thing that I found questionable was that according to police report she was found half naked, covered in blood and had no recollection of what had happened. Was she was a victim of some kind of illegal drug that was possibly slipped to her by either Ellis or the people who dropped her off? The article states that Ellis had numerous charges of panhandling, intoxication, trespassing, and possession of an open container of alcohol, which calls to question the reliability of his accusation.
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