College student accused of killing housemate and eating his heart
June 6, 2012, Wednesday
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A Kenyan college student accused of killing a housemate and eating his heart and part of his brain was described as a possible mass murderer "waiting to happen," according to a campus police report months before the attack.
An instructor had made the remark after Alex Kinyua, 21, was kicked off of a college military training program when he punched holes in the walls of a computer lab.
Kinyua, a student at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs, the sheriff's office said last week. The older man, a native of Ghana, had been staying with the Kinyua family at their townhouse in a Baltimore suburb.
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 Ghana, his relatives there said.
"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. "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."
A Morgan State campus police report obtained by The Baltimore Sun said that after Kinyua's outburst in the classroom in December, Staff Sergeant Robert Edwards, a senior military instructor at the school, made the potential mass killing comment, saying he was a "Virginia Tech waiting to happen."
Virginia Tech was where South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students in 2007 before killing himself.
The police report said Kinyua had been barred from campus until a meeting with school officials and that two officers didn't think a psychological evaluation was needed, though one did call a counseling center emergency number. When they got no response they released him to his physics professor father, Antony Kinyua.
The report notes Kinyua was kicked out of the school's Reserve Officer Training Corps program because of the outburst. Officials have declined to discuss the reason why Kinyua was "disenrolled" in the college-based US military program that allows students to be commissioned as officers when they graduate.
At a January forum, Kinyua mentions Virginia Tech while advocating for a greater focus on protecting young men and women from university violence, according to a video released by the university.
Virginia Tech was a subject again in a Facebook posting in February. He referred to it and "other past university killings around the country" and warned "ethnic cleansing is the policy, strategy and tactics that will affect you, directly or indirectly in the coming months."
In a separate case on May 19, police said Kinyua beat a man with a baseball bat on Morgan State's campus, fracturing his skull and causing blindness in one eye.
An instructor had made the remark after Alex Kinyua, 21, was kicked off of a college military training program when he punched holes in the walls of a computer lab.
Kinyua, a student at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs, the sheriff's office said last week. The older man, a native of Ghana, had been staying with the Kinyua family at their townhouse in a Baltimore suburb.
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 Ghana, his relatives there said.
"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. "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."
A Morgan State campus police report obtained by The Baltimore Sun said that after Kinyua's outburst in the classroom in December, Staff Sergeant Robert Edwards, a senior military instructor at the school, made the potential mass killing comment, saying he was a "Virginia Tech waiting to happen."
Virginia Tech was where South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students in 2007 before killing himself.
The police report said Kinyua had been barred from campus until a meeting with school officials and that two officers didn't think a psychological evaluation was needed, though one did call a counseling center emergency number. When they got no response they released him to his physics professor father, Antony Kinyua.
The report notes Kinyua was kicked out of the school's Reserve Officer Training Corps program because of the outburst. Officials have declined to discuss the reason why Kinyua was "disenrolled" in the college-based US military program that allows students to be commissioned as officers when they graduate.
At a January forum, Kinyua mentions Virginia Tech while advocating for a greater focus on protecting young men and women from university violence, according to a video released by the university.
Virginia Tech was a subject again in a Facebook posting in February. He referred to it and "other past university killings around the country" and warned "ethnic cleansing is the policy, strategy and tactics that will affect you, directly or indirectly in the coming months."
In a separate case on May 19, police said Kinyua beat a man with a baseball bat on Morgan State's campus, fracturing his skull and causing blindness in one eye.
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