A 21-year-old college student, who was accused of killing a housemate, told the police that he ate the victim’s heart and part of his brain after he died.
According to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in a suburb of Baltimore.
Kinyua, who is a student at Morgan State University, has been charged earlier, in May, for another attack in which, the victim was brutally beaten but survived.
Kinyua, a Kenya native, is charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, ABC News reported.
He was charged for a non-bailable offence.
Kinyua’s public defender did not return a call seeking comment, and a voicemail left at Kinyua's home was also not returned.
Sheriff's spokesperson, Monica Worrell said that even though the chief medical examiner had not yet officially identified the body parts, the authorities believe that they are of Kodie, who was reported missing May 25.
His cellphone and wallet were left in the home and police were initially told that he had gone for a jog.
On Tuesday, Kinyua's father, Antony Kinyua, had called detectives and reported that his another son, Jarrod, found what he thought were human remains in their house in Joppatowne.
Jarrod found two metal tins, which contained a human head and two human hands.
Police claims that Jarrod confronted his brother but Kinyua said the remains were animals.
Charging documents reveal that, Jarrod and his father went to the basement, where Jarrod "observed that the items he observed were gone and Alex Kinyua was cleaning the container he observed them in.
Detectives, who obtained a search warrant, discovered the head and hands in the house. Police reports that Alexander Kinyua admitted to killing Kodie by cutting him up with a knife and later eating his heart and part of his brain.
According to the authorities, Kinyua told detectives the rest of the body could be found in a trash container at the Town Baptist Church in Harford County where they discovered remains.
The attack comes in the same week when another man in Miami, chewed away a man's face along a busy highway and wouldn't stop until an officer shot him to death.
Witnesses insist that 31-year-old Rudy Eugene growled at the officer and continued to chew away.
The victim, identified as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo was a homeless man and lived under the causeway. His condition was stated to be critical and he will be permanently disfigured
However, earlier on May 19, Kinyua beat a man with a baseball bat on Morgan's campus, fracturing his skull and making him lose sight in one eye, according to Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Kinyua was arrested May 20 but was later released on 220,000 dollars bail.
Morgan officials reveal that Kinyua has studied electrical engineering. He was also in the ROTC.
On the other hand, according to court records, the victim, Kodie, a native of Ghana, was convicted in November 2008 in Baltimore County of sex offense and assault in September 2007 and harassment, stalking and telephone misuse for making repeated calls in 2007 and 2008 to a woman..
He was given a jail sentence of a year and half.
