A Kenyan-born college student in the United States has admitted killing and eating parts of a man from Ghana who was staying with his family.

Alex Kinyua was arrested this week and charged with murder.

Kinyua is accused of eating the man's heart and part of his brain.

Investigators found the head and hands of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie on Tuesday after Kinyua's father called police.

Kinyua is a student at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore.

He was charged earlier in May in another attack in which the victim was brutally beaten but survived.

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