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Man busy biting state trooper on turnpike ramp suffers apparent heart attack and dies

State Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office are investigating the sudden death of a pedestrian state troopers were trying to get off a turnpike ramp near the Allston/Cambridge tolls last night.

According to the DA's office, a trooper on a detail spotted Donald Moskites, 47, of Windsor, CT., walking up the ramp towards downtown around 10:15 p.m. The trooper, another trooper who arrived shortly after and some turnpike maintenance workers tried to get the man off the road, to little avail, the DA's office says:

In the course of the altercation, the man bit one trooper, removing a large chunk of flesh from his arm. The troopers discharged their chemical spray to subdue him.

In the course of the incident, the man went into cardiac arrest, at which point the troopers performed CPR and requested medical assistance. Boston EMS responded at the scene and transported the man to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The troopers were also transported to the hospital for treatment of injuries they sustained.

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Sounds like he was on bath salts or something

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is a crazy drug.

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The trooper is at significant risk for any of a number of diseases...

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The biggest risk of a human bite is a bacterial infection. We have tons of bacteria in our mouths...even the ones that brush 3x a day. There are a few virii, hep/herp/syph/TB, that are probably prevalent enough and present in saliva/mouths enough to be of concern too...if the attacker was even a carrier of any of them.

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this officer's physician (or the decedent's autopsy physician, technically) will even need to rule out rabies. It is the wide range of potential consequences of a human bite, rather than the sheer number, which will complicate his treatment. But he bit out a chunk of flesh?! Yeah, PCP is a reasonable guess. (SMH)

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This sounds like excited delirium - wild, out of control behavior followed by a crash (and unfortunately death) after police try to control him.

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There is no such thing as excited delirium. This term was invented by the police to cover their wrongful, unconstitutional restraint asphyxia deaths.

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