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A Baltimore city jury awarded a $900,000 verdict to a former Morgan State University football player who was injured in a shooting on campus in 2012, and later sued the school because it did not provide a safe environment for students.

By Jessica Anderson

Sep 7, 2016

Morgan State University settled a lawsuit last week over allegations that it did not do enough to protect a student who was beaten by Alexander Kinyua just days before he committed a cannibalistic murder.

The lawyer for the 20-year-old man accused of stabbing to death a prominent Howard County businessman and blogger is considering a defense based on his mental capability at the time of the crime, according to a motion filed this week.

A man accused of killing a family friend and eating his heart and part of his brain appeared in Harford County Circuit Court on Monday for a plea hearing.

Police from nine Maryland college campuses convened at Towson to be trained in recognizing mental illness.

A lawsuit can go forward against Morgan State University alleging that the school failed to protect a former student beaten by a man later accused of murder and cannibalism.

Joshua Ceasar is suing the school after he was beaten by Alexander Kinyua

Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year.

A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence, in a recently filed lawsuit.

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Alexander Kinyua, an electrical engineering student at Morgan State University, was charged with the first-degree murder of his roommate 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Kinyua allegedly hadn't just killed the man, but also had eaten his heart and portions of his brain.

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Alexander Kinyua, the Morgan State University student accused of killing and cannibalizing a family friend, pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible Wednesday on separate attempted murder charges.

Morgan State University's board of regents has voted not to renew President David Wilson's contract, a board member said.

A Morgan State University football player was shot outside a dormitory shortly before 1 p.m. Friday, police said.

A man was shot in the stomach on the campus of Morgan State University on Wednesday in what campus police said was not a random incident.

Alexander Kinyua, the college student accused of killing a family friend and ingesting his heart and brain, has been declared incompetent to stand trial, according to court records.

Morgan State University officials said Saturday they have promoted campus police Chief Adrian J. Wiggins to a new position of chief public safety officer, in which he will explore changes to campus safety and emergency management systems.

The funeral for the man who was killed in Harford County, and had his organs eaten, has been scheduled for July 7 in Ghana, according to his sister's Facebook page. Still, little is known about the victim, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie.

Alexander Kinyua, the 21-year-old accused of killing a man and eating his organs, has been formally indicted on charges of first-degree murder and assault and is being held at a state mental hospital.

The Morgan State University student charged with dismembering a friend and eating his heart and part of his brain was indicted Thursday on an attempted first-degree murder charge in the beating of another victim who was bludgeoned with a baseball bat.

The Morgan State University student charged with dismembering a friend and eating his heart and part of his brain was indicted Thursday on an attempted first-degree murder charge in the beating of another victim who was bludgeoned with a baseball bat.

Three weeks before Alexander Kinyua was charged with dismembering a family friend and eating some of the body parts, police at Morgan State University investigated a report that the suspect had a machete in his dorm room, school officials confirmed Monday.

Two weeks before a Morgan State University student was arrested in the killing of a housemate, campus police received a report that he had a machete.

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Speaking out for the first time about a gruesome killing allegedly committed by a troubled student, the president of Morgan State University expressed condolences to the suspect's and victim's families before the school's Board of Regents on Thursday.

Less coverage of cannibalism incident would be welcomed

Crisis management consultants say Morgan State officials should speak up about Alexander Kinyua's time at the university, before his arrest in the killing of Kujoe Bonasafo Agyei-Kodie and his confession, according to police, that he dismembered Agyei-Kodie and ate his heart and parts of his brain..

Questions on are mounting on whether someone missed troubling warning signs before Morgan State University senior Alexander Kinyua allegedly cut up a family friend and ate his heart and part of his brains.