Md. student charged with cannibal killing

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BEL AIR, Md., June 1 (UPI) -- A student at Morgan State University in Baltimore admitted to killing a fellow student and eating some of his organs, a sheriff said.

A judge ordered Alexander Kinyua, 21, held without bail Thursday, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Kinyua was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault in the killing of Kujoe Bonsafo Agye-Kodie, 37, CNN reported.

Investigators said Kinyua led them to a trash bin where he had dumped parts of the body.

"He admitted to killing ... Mr. Kodie, and cutting him up with a knife," Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane said. "He further stated that he consumed Mr. Kodie's internal organs -- specifically his heart and portions of his brain."

Kinyua was studying electrical engineering. Agyei-Kodie, a native of Ghana, had been a graduate student at Morgan State and was living with Kinyua and his family in Joppa, a Baltimore suburb.

Antony Kinyua, Alexander Kinyua's father, said the family last saw Agyei-Kodie when he left the house early Friday morning to go jogging. Antony Kinyua called police late Tuesday after another son, Jarrod, told him he had found a head and two hands in the laundry room.

Investigators said there were "inconsistencies" in statements from the family.

Both Alexander Kinyua and the victim had troubled histories. Agyei-Kodie was expelled from Morgan State after he was convicted of sexual assault and was facing deportation to Ghana.

Alexander Kinyua was thrown out of the ROTC following a disciplinary problem this year. In May, he allegedly attacked another student with a baseball bat -- fracturing his skull and leaving him blind in one eye -- and was facing an assault charge and expulsion from the university.