Attack victim ‘awake and alert’

MIAMI — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack along a busy Miami street is now “awake and alert,” according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

A photograph shown to reporters Tuesday showed Ronald Poppo walking down a hospital hallway, supported by hospital staff.

The photo showed the upper two -thirds of Poppo’s face covered in scabs. He’s missing his nose and both eye sockets were covered, one with gauze and one with what appeared to be a skin graft. His gray beard was trimmed, leaving a mustache over his upper lip.

Poppo has been at Jackson Memorial Hospital since he was attacked May 26 by Rudy Eugene. A police officer shot and killed Eugene.

“We’re all responsible for what we do,” U.S. Dist. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock told Greig, before an audience that included the families of some of Bulger’s alleged victims.

Greig pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.

She faced a maximum of five years in prison for each charge and a $250,000 fine. She declined to speak in her own defense.

Bulger, 82, is the former head of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish American crime ring in Boston, prosecutors said.

He pleaded not guilty to charges linked to 19 slayings from the 1970s and 1980s and faces trial in the fall.