Morgan State student Alex Kinyua described as "Virginia Tech waiting to happen"

This undated photo provided by the Hartford County Sheriff's Office shows Alexander Kinyua. / AP Photo/Hartford County Sheriff's Office

(AP) BALTIMORE - A Maryland college student accused of killing a housemate and eating his heart and part of his brain was kicked out of a 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.

Alex Kinyua, 21, a native of Kenya and a student at Morgan State University, admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said last week. The older man, 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 haven't 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, his relatives from that country told The Associated Press.

"Daddy is in a state of shock, does not want to believe his son is dead," Gloria Boahema Asante, the youngest of four siblings, said in an interview with The Associated Press in Accra. "We look at the picture that went with the story and see the smiles on his face and do not want to believe that he is dead."

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 that the Sun referred to on Monday does not provide any rationale for the mention of the massacre in which 32 students were killed by a student who committed suicide.

University officials referred questions about the report to campus police, who did not provide it to AP immediately.

The report does say 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 physics professor father, Antony Kinyua. His father is who asked Agyei-Kodie to move in when he hadn't worked for three years and was trying to re-establish his life, said James Holt, a friend of the victim for about 10 years.

The report notes Kinyua was kicked out of the school's ROTC program because of the outburst. ROTC officials have declined to discuss the reason why Kinyua in January was "disenrolled" in the college-based U.S. military program that allows students to be commissioned as officers when they graduate. Officials said Monday that Edwards was now deployed to Afghanistan.

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."

And in more violence 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.

Grieving relatives last spoke to Agyei-Kodie was when he called for Mother's Day, said his younger sister, Irene Konadu Asante, who was dressed in mourning clothes of red and black.

"We took turns to talk to him and he expressed his desire to return home within months. He even asked my husband to start looking for jobs for him," she said through tears. "My brother's dream is to become the president of Ghana and that is why he had spent so much time educating himself in the U.S."

Agyei-Kodie, the son of a retired banker, attended the prestigious St. Augustine's College at Cape Coast and went on to Presbyterian Boys Secondary School in Accra before graduating from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a degree in chemical engineering.

He had his problems in the U.S., though. He had studied at Morgan, but had not since 2008. He was sentenced to at least a year and 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, Holt, his friend, told AP.

Gloria Konadu Asante recalled that her brother always "hammered" on the importance of education.

"Brother Kujoe is every little sister's dream of a big brother. He was always encouraging me to go to school and did all he could to help me in my education," she said. "Education would take you anywhere and did everything to see me through university."

[tye45]

I'm not defending this guy or the judge, but do a quick search for baseball bat attack statistics. Why is this attack getting all the news?

Pure speculation, but my guess is because the Vote manipulators (Dem and Rep) are trying to find out if you are a potential recruit. Repub's are looking for loyalists making the Obama comparisons and the dem's are looking for loyalists rebuttals or maybe saying "ROTC did it."

You all are either 1)playing into thier hands or 2)are already on a political team.

[moretruthnow]

There are way too many republican bloviating ignoramuses who are as dumb as any GOP billionaire could ever hope for. Success you are that dumb GTR, that gullible and that against the legally elected president who has been doing his job while the GOP have been against this country's recovery and against the American people who were harmed by the Bush administration's policies for the wealthy.

[GTR5]

He is from Kenya and he has a cousin here who lives in a big white house.

[bbarnes5557]

Probably just had the munchies......

[rwsmith29456]

"The report that the Sun referred to on Monday does not provide any rationale for the mention of the massacre in which 32 students were killed by a student who committed suicide." Sounds like the ROTC guy had him picked out pretty good. People always ask, "Was there any sign something might be wrong". In this case there was. I suppose the ROTC guy should have predicted, "You are going to cut out your room mate' heart and eat it."

[moretruthnow]

A real sicko. After Kinyua's vicious attacked on the first victim with a bat he should not have been allowed out of bail. That was a big mistake.

[ammo17]

don`t we have enough crazies in this country,now we import them.he must believe in that old commercial "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"

[Resin-Smoker]

"Investigators haven't given a possible motive."

Bath salts ?

[ahrats]

I guess you'll put this guy away for few years and then let him back out on our soicity so he can eat some more people. This is why there should be a death penalty!

[moretruthnow]

This is why there definitely should be a death penalty. We need to execute those who are definitely evil and guilty.

[fb1961]

I suppose if Obama had a son while in Kenya, he would be something like this dude.

[realist2010]

Can't help yourself, can you?

[Didymus12]

Republican retards can't help themselves, can they?

[Bucky4U]

Do the bath salts baby! You know why cannibals don't eat clowns?

They taste funny!