This undated photo provided by the Hartford County Sheriff’s Office shows Alexander Kinyua. Kinyua, a 21-year-old Kenyan college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim’s heart and part of his brain after he died. (AP Photo/Hartford County Sheriff’s Office)SARAH BRUMFIELD
BALTIMORE (AP) – A Maryland college student accused of killing a housemate and eating his heart and part of his brain was kicked out of an ROTC program after he punched holes in the walls of the cadet computer lab and a military instructor referred to him as a “Virginia Tech waiting to happen,” according to a campus police report months before the attack.
Alex Kinyua, 21, a native of Kenya and a student at Morgan State University, admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said last week. The older man, a native of Ghana, had been staying with the Kinyua family for about six weeks at their townhouse in the Baltimore suburb of Joppatowne. Investigators haven’t given a possible motive.
Two weeks before he was killed, he said he was ready to come home and get a job and dreamed of someday becoming president of his native land of Ghana, his relatives from that country told The Associated Press.
“Daddy is in a state of shock, does not want to believe his son is dead,” Gloria Boahema Asante, the youngest of four siblings, said in an interview with the AP in Accra. “We look at the picture that went with the story and see the smiles on his face and do not want to believe that he is dead.”