Professor's son, 22, pleads guilty to stabbing and dismembering his roommate before eating his heart and brain



Alexander Kinyua hacked Kujoe Bonsafo Aygei-Kodie, 37, to death as he slept before eating his heart and brain and hiding his body parts

Four days later, relatives discovered the severed limbs and head

He has been at a maximum-security hospital ever since

On Monday, he pleaded guilty and said his medications had been helping



A professor's son who attacked his roommate with an axe while he slept before dismembering and eating his heart and parts of his brain today pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible.

Former Morgan State student, Alexander Kinyua, 22, entered the plea for the first-degree murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, whose body parts were discovered four days after he vanished last year.

Agyei-Kodie, 37, had recently moved from Ghana and was staying with Kinyua's family in Joppatown, a suburb of Baltimore when he was attacked.



Kinyua spoke softly as he responded to questions from the judge in Bel Air, Maryland on Monday, saying he had agreed to the plea and that medications he had been taking were helping him.

Killing: Alexander Kinyua, left, has pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in the first-degree murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, right, who he stabbed to death and dismembered in May 2012



Judge Stephen Waldron said he had concerns about agreeing to the plea, but had to accept determinations by psychiatrists for the defense and prosecution that Kinyua could not be held criminally responsible. He expressed condolences to family and friends of the Agyei-Kodie.

'My heart breaks for you,' Waldron said. 'I am very, very sorry.'

Kinyua, whose father is a physics professor at Morgan State, has been held at the state's maximum-security psychiatric hospital and returned there after the hearing. It is likely he will remain there for the rest of his life.

Percess Veronica Mattison, a longtime family friend who knew Agyei-Kodie, revealed how devastated the victim's family are as she spoke to the court.



Horror: Some of the victim's body parts were found in a dumpster in a church parking lot, pictured

Scene: The house in Joppatowne, Maryland, where he killed Agyei-Kodie before eating his heart and brains

'We all could see him soaring to great heights in the world. This was not to be,' Mattison said. 'He was slaughtered in the most brutal, inhumane fashion by Alexander Kinyua. This is an irreplaceable loss accompanied by much pain.'

Murderer: Kinyua, originally from Kenya, ranted about human sacrifices on Facebook before the killing



She also noted that Kinyua carefully tried to conceal evidence.

'Someone acting with such care to conceal evidence, and demonstrating the capacity to cover his tracks so competently does not appear to be experiencing a mental deficiency,' Mattison said.

'Alexander did not impulsively commit the crime, he prepared Kujoe for consumption.'

Harford County State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly told reporters after the hearing he had concerns about the planning before and after the crime.



'But we went out and consulted with another psychiatrist that we'd used in other cases, had him review this evidence, and we really had no evidence, no testimony or opinion from other medical personnel that would dispute the findings of the doctors at Clifton Perkins that he was not criminally responsible at the time he committed the crime,' Cassilly said.

Kinyua, a U.S. citizen originally from Kenya, told detectives that he killed Agyei-Kodie with an axe while he was sleeping.

He also said he dismembered the body, consuming his heart, hiding his head and hands at the home and placing the remaining body parts in a trash bin in a nearby church parking lot.

Agyei-Kodie, a native of Ghana, had been staying with the Kinyua family for about six weeks at their townhouse in a Baltimore suburb when he disappeared in May 2012.

Probe: A pair of Harford County Sheriff's deputies puts up crime scene tape blocking off the street last year as crime scene investigators search for evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation

His father alerted a detective to his son, saying that his other son Jarrod discovered what appeared to be a human head and hands in two metal tins above the washing machine.



Horrified, Jarrod Kinyua brought his father down to the basement where Antony said he saw Alexander Kinyu cleaning out the containers.

Kinyua then directed police to Towne Baptist Church on Trimble Road, where they said they found the rest of Agyei-Kodie’s remains.

Authorities say Kinyua ranted about 'human sacrifices' and ethnic cleansing on Facebook before the slaying.

In a separate case, Kinyua pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in a baseball bat attack at Morgan State days before the killing of Agyei-Kodie.

First victim: He also allegedly attacked Joshua Ceasar in the days before he killed his roommate

The victim, who has been left partially blind, is now suing Morgan State University saying they knew Kinyua was a danger to others and they did nothing to stop him.



In the weeks and months leading up to the first attack, Kinyua had been caught punching out walls at the ROTC office and writing satanic rants on Facebook.