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June 2, 2012
June 2, 2012
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By KEVIN KELLEY, New York
Posted Friday, June 1 2012 at 12:37
Posted Friday, June 1 2012 at 12:37
A Kenyan studying in the US has confessed to killing a
housemate and then eating his heart and part of his brain, police in
the state of Maryland said on Thursday.
Some media reports in the US are referring to the crime as a case of "cannibalism".
Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old student at Morgan
State University in the city of Baltimore, has been charged with
murdering a man believed to be a 37-year-old Ghanaian, Kujoe Bonsafo
Agyei-Kodie, who was reported missing on May 25.
Mr Agyei-Kodie was described by authorities as being "very intelligent".
He had been staying at the Kinyua family's home in Joppatowne, Maryland, for the past six months.
Mr Kinyua admitted to killing Mr Agyei-Kodie by cutting him up with a knife, police said.
Mr Kinyua then “ingested [the victim's] heart and portions of his brain,” according to police documents cited in media reports.
Less than two weeks ago, Mr Kinyua was charged with
beating a different man with a baseball bat, fracturing the victim's
skill and causing him to lose sight in one eye, Baltimore police
indicated.
He was released on $220,000 bail on May 20 in connection with the attack.
Mr Kinyua's brother, Jarrod, on Tuesday found two
metal tins that held a human head and two hands in the basement of the
family's home, according to police.
The rest of the body was said to be found in a trash container at a Baptist church in another Maryland town.
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