By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The victim of Miami cannibal Rudy Eugene is on the road to recovery, despite having half his faced chewed off in the vicious attack last month.

Ronald Poppo is “now awake and alert,” revealed doctors at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, who revealed that along with the homeless man’s horrific facial injuries, he may also have been accidentally shot twice in the chest by police when they opened fire on his attacker.

“He's coping remarkably well. We have mental health professionals to help him,” trauma surgeon Nicholas Namias told reporters, reported the New York Daily News.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Eugene was found lying naked on Poppo on May 26, eating his face in a gruesome Silence of the Lambs style rampage. Eyewitness Larry Vega flagged down a passing policeman who shot and killed the crazed attacker when he didn’t respond to demands that he get off his victim.

New photos (which Breaking Celebrity News chose not to publish due to their graphic nature) of the 65-year-old released by his doctors show him walking through a hospital corridor with the aid of a medical assistant. The extensive damage to the upper half of Poppo’s face can clearly be seen, his nose and right eye are gone, his left eye is covered in a bandage and his forehead and cheeks are a mass of bloody wounds.