Pictured: The man who 'smashed a 77-year-old woman in the head with shovel' and claimed he was an alien who could talk to Jesus after getting high on bath salts



This is the stark-raving madman police say bashed a 77-year-old woman in the head with a shovel after he got high on bath salts, a terrifying new drug that's legal in most places.



Robert William White, 20, is pictured screaming 'God loves you all!' as police wheel him out of his apartment on Thursday.



Officers say White claimed was an alien and that we was speaking directly with Jesus Christ because of the drugs he took.

Raving: Robert William White, 20, screams 'God loves you all!' as he is carted out of his apartment after allegedly bashing an elderly woman with a shovel

When the elderly woman approached White, he was swinging a shovel 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.

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.

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.



Until then, a resident nearby, Abraham Cabrera, said that he had heard White screaming profanities and threatening to kill someone while glass broke.

Terrifying: Bath salts have been blamed for several incidents of people becoming extremely violent, including a cannibal attack in Miami

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.

