A Connecticut victim is slain with ax, eye and brains eaten

In a gruesome Dec. 16th incident in Bridgeport, Conn., 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith hacked a man with an ax, extracted an eye and a portion of the man’s brains, which he later ate.

Smith, a resident of Florida, was arrested yesterday following the discovery of the victim’s remains, 43-year-old Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez, on January 20th. According to Bridgeport police, Smith had told a relative that he had killed a man with a hatchet and eaten pieces of his brain and his eye shortly after the slaying mid-December.

The relative contacted police when Gonzalez’s body was discovered. Smith had boarded a Florida bus that day, headed for Lynn Haven. Law enforcement officers took Smith into custody at a residence without incident.

According to ctpost.com, Gonzalez invited Smith into his apartment after he saw the latter sleeping outside on the porch. Once inside the apartment, Smith began beating Gonzalez about the face with an ax. The report does not describe circumstances which led to the confrontation, if any.

Smith later told the relative that Gonzalez’s injuries were so severe that he was able to extract an eye and portions of the victims’ brain, which he put in a bag. He ate the contents later at a cemetery, by his brother’s gravesite.

Gonzalez’s stepdaughter wants justice for his slaying. "Here it is that my dad was trying to help this guy, telling him to come inside from the cold," she told the ctpost.com. "If my father was helping him stay warm, what kind of person is it who does this, who repays him by swinging an axe at him and hitting him so hard it blows his brains out?"

The murder and subsequent cannibalism of the victim certainly suggest a mental disorder on the part of the perpetrator, as cannibalism is so uncommon in the U.S. as to have virtually no laws against it on the books. People who eat human flesh are usually charged with crimes related, directly or indirectly, to cannibalism, such as murder or desecration of a body. Although the urge to eat human flesh has not been formally recognized as a mental disorder, it has featured in several notorious serial killer cases, such as those of Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish.

As shocking as it may be, cannibalism used to be practiced fairly widely in various past human societies. It continued into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa. Cannibalism has recently been both practiced and fiercely condemned in several wars, especially in Liberia and Congo. Today, the Korowai, a people of southeastern Papua, are one of very few tribes still believed to eat human flesh as a cultural practice.

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