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Man accused of following, kidnapping and beating woman in Miami arrested, cops say

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A man has been arrested on attempted murder and other charges after a woman said she was followed and brutally beaten while walking home in Miami, police said. Eddie Zewayne Bussey, 28, was arrested Tuesday on charges including kidnapping, attempted sexual battery, attempted second-degree murder, burglary, strongarm robbery, battery by strangulation, indecent exposure, tampering with a victim, giving a false name or identity after arrest, criminal mischief, battery on an officer, and resisting an officer with violence, Miami-Dade jail records showed. According to an arrest report, the 40-year-old victim said she had been at a club in the 2300 block of N. Miami Avenue with friends until sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 14, when she left and began walking northbound on Biscayne Boulevard toward her home because her phone’s battery was drained and she was able to request a rideshare. As she was walking she said noticed a man she didn’t know, later identified as Bussey, fol