Is this the lede of all time?:

Despite surveillance video, eyewitness statements, and a victim clinging for life with more than 75 percent of his face chewed off, the family and girlfriend of Rudy Eugene are telling the world there is no way he could attack someone so viciously.
"I knew my son," Eugene's mother told ABC affiliate WPLG. "Rudy will never, never do something like that. Somebody killed him, and they just go and dump him."

That's a loyal mom!