Alexander Kinyua Ate Kujoe Agyei Kodie |
Baltimore - A 21-year-old
college student from Kenya accused of killing a housemate told police he ate
the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died.
Alexander Kinyua hid the head
and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in a suburb of
Baltimore, according to the sheriff's office. Kinyua, a student at Morgan State
University, was charged earlier in May in another attack in which the victim
was brutally beaten but survived.
Kinyua is charged with
first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo
Agyei-Kodie, of Ghana. He was ordered held on no bail.
His public defender did not
return a call seeking comment, and a voicemail left at Kinyua's home was not
returned.
Sheriff's spokesperson Monica
Worrell said the chief medical examiner had not yet officially identified the
body parts, but that authorities believe they are those of Kodie, who was
reported missing on 25 May. His cellphone and wallet were left in the home and
police were initially told he had gone for a run.
On Tuesday, Kinyua's father,
Antony Kinyua, called detectives and reported that another son, Jarrod, found
what he thought were human remains in the house where they all lived in
Joppatowne.
Jarrod found two metal tins,
which held a human head and two human hands. Police say Jarrod confronted his
brother, who said the remains were animals.
According to charging
documents, Jarrod and his father went to the basement, where Jarrod
"observed that the items he observed were gone and Alex Kinyua was
cleaning the container he observed them in".
Court records
Detectives obtained a search
warrant and found the head and hands in the house. Police say Alexander Kinyua
admitted to killing Kodie by cutting him up with a knife and eating his heart
and part of his brain.
Authorities say Kinyua told
detectives the rest of the body could be found in a trash container at the Town
Baptist Church in Harford County where they discovered remains.
The attack comes in the same
week as a man in Miami chewed away another man's face along a busy highway and
wouldn't stop until an officer shot him to death. Witnesses say 31-year-old
Rudy Eugene growled at the officer and continued to chew away. The victim,
identified as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, a homeless man who lived under the
causeway, was in critical condition and will be permanently disfigured.
On 19 May, Kinyua beat a man
with a baseball bat on Morgan's campus, fracturing his skull and making him
lose sight in one eye, according to Baltimore police spokesperson Anthony
Guglielmi. Kinyua was arrested 20 May and released on $220 000 bail.
Morgan officials say Kinyua
studied electrical engineering.
According to court records, the
victim, Kodie, was convicted in November 2008 in Baltimore County of sex
offense and assault in September 2007 and harassment, stalking and telephone
misuse for making repeated calls in 2007 and 2008 to a woman. He was sentenced
to at least a year and a half in jail.