By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Rudy Eugene has rocketed to infamy as the face-eating cannibal who was shot dead while chewing on his victim’s flesh, but Breaking Celebrity News has learned that his former classmates in Florida knew a very different side to him.

The 31-year-old is remembered as an easy-going teen who avoided getting into trouble and was ready to help anyone, reported the Sun-Sentinel.

“No, that's not him," said Victoria Forte, a former classmate from North Miami Beach High School. "Drugs did this to him. Drugs took over a person we knew as a beautiful person."

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Eugene was found lying naked on a homeless man, Ronald Poppo, eating his face in a gruesome Silence of the Lambs style rampage. Eyewitness Larry Vega flagged down a passing police man who shot and killed the crazed attacker when he didn’t respond to demands that he get off his victim.

Police suspect that he was on a potent synthetic drug called “bath salts” that have reportedly caused violent behavior, but nothing as obscene as cannibalism