Alex Kinyua, 21, a native of Kenya and a student at Morgan State University is accused of killing a housemate and eating his heart and part of his brain.
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Kinyua 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.
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Kinyua admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs.
The victim, 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 have yet to 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.
A Morgan State campus police report obtained by The Baltimore Sun said that after Kinyua’s outburst in the classroom in December, Staff Sgt. Robert Edwards, a senior military instructor at the school, made the Virginia Tech comment.
The report says Kinyua was 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 father, physics professor Antony Kinyua.
In 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.
He then suggests the hazing policy include “blood sacrifice.” It’s not clear what he means and his short comment is met with applause from the crowd.
Virginia Tech was a subject again in his Facebook page 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 making him lose sight in one eye.
Kinyua was freed on $220,000 bail just days before Agyei-Kodie was killed. He is now being held without bond on a murder charge.
Agyei-Kodie had his problems in the U.S., though.
He had studied at Morgan State, but not since 2008. He was sentenced to at least a year and a half in jail after a 2008 conviction in Baltimore County for sex offense, assault, harassment, stalking and telephone misuse for making repeated calls to a woman, according to court records.
An immigration judge ordered him removed from the country in 2010, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was waiting for documents from Ghana before returning him to his country.
Agyei-Kodie maintained his innocence to the end and hoped to clear his name.
When we see signs that someone is mentally unstable we should get them help immediately or else they may do something that harms another person. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Agyei-Kodie family.
