Kinyua was charged with first-degree murder and a weapons charge in last year’s killing and dismembering of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a Ghanaian national and family friend who lived at Kinyu’a family home. Kinyua admitted to investigators to killing Agyei-Kodie and eating his heart and parts of his brain.
At the time of the killing, Kinyua was a student at Morgan State University, where he was accused of attacking another man with a baseball bat just a few weeks prior to killing Agyei-Kodie, leaving the victim partially blind. In that case, Kinyua was charged with attempted murder. He pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible after a state psychiatric hospital diagnosed him with severe psychosis. Rather than be sent to prison in that case, he was ordered indefinitely to a mental facility where he has been confined since.
If his plea in the murder case is accepted, the judge is also expected to order him confined to a mental institution.
Source: Mwakilishi
