ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 22-year-old woman in St. Petersburg, Fla., sank her teeth into a wheelchair-bound senior citizen in a bloody late-night attack after declaring herself a vampire, police said.
Milton Ellis, 69, survived the alleged biting spree on the porch of a vacant Hooters restaurant but was hospitalized with wounds to his face, lip and neck, myFOXtampabay.com reported Friday.
Ellis told police Thursday that he met Josephine Rebecca Smith shortly before midnight at a Shell gas station on Roosevelt Boulevard in St. Petersburg.
“He was staying near an overhang near the vacant Hooters restaurant, so he thought it might be a good place for her to stay,” according to the St. Petersburg Police Department’s Mike Puetz. “After he fell asleep on the ground, he claims that she attacked him, started yelling that she was a vampire, that she was going to eat him and started biting him by his face and body.”
With blood still oozing from bite marks on his neck, Ellis made his way back to the gas station in his wheelchair, before calling police.
Officers found Smith on the porch at Hooters, half naked and covered in Ellis’ blood. Police said that she had not been assaulted in any way.
Smith, who said she does not remember anything, was charged with aggravated battery on an elderly person.
Ellis was treated at a local hospital. The bites required stitches, but he was expected to recover.
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