Man 'high on bath salts bashes elderly woman's head with shovel
By Nina Golgowski 23 June 2012
dailymail.co.uk
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and an elderly woman lucky to be alive after he allegedly hit her over the head with a shovel while high on bath salts.
Robert William White of Glendale, California was apprehended by police after hitting the 77-year-old woman with the shovel after she saw him swinging it at birds.
'I hate you and I want to kill you today,' he told the woman when she asked him to stop, according to a neighbour speaking to the Glendale News.
High: Robert William White, 20, was hand cuffed and carried out of an apartment building after allegedly getting high on bath salts and then hitting an elderly woman with a shovel (file photo)
Police who responded to reports of the man trying to kill the woman at the apartment complex found White barricaded inside his apartment.
'He seemed completely out of sorts,' said Northwest Glendale Police Lt Bruce Fox speaking to the paper.
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White was holed up for nearly an hour before police were able to enter his apartment with a key and subdue him using a 40mm rubber bullet and Taser.
Up until then a resident nearby, Abraham Cabrera, said that he had heard White screaming profanities and threatening to kill someone while glass broke.
Drugs: White admitted to mixing a soda with the bath salts, that are now illegal in Los Angeles, before he was seen swinging at birds and then the woman's head
Carried out of his apartment handcuffed, while strapped to a wheelchair, witnesses reported him yelling: 'God loves you all.'
Police said White admitted to drinking a soda mixed with bath salts, while also saying he's an alien and is able to speak to Jesus Christ.
The woman hit with the shovel was taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police told the Glendale News.
The victim's name has not been released.
Emergency rooms in the U.S. are having to treat a wave of agitated, violent and psychotic patients high on a the synthetic drug containing a chemical derivative of methcathinone.
Increasing violence from the abusers have in several instances gone as far as biting other people's flesh in attacks described as cannibalistic and resembling 'zombies.'
Others, those biters included, have been seen running naked after stripping off all their clothes.
Effects include agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain and suicidal thoughts.
The drug is not addictive but causes acute toxicity.
While not currently banned by Federal Law it is in many regions, including the city of Los Angeles since last Fall.
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