( CNN ) -- Two days after being released from jail after getting into a fight on his university 's campus , a 21-year-old Maryland man allegedly killed and then ate parts of his housemate , court records show . Alexander Kinyua was being held without bail Friday at the Harford County Detention Center after being charged with first-degree murder , first-degree assault and second-degree assault in the alleged cannibalism case . Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told reporters a day earlier that Kinyua admitted killing his housemate , cutting him up , and then eating his heart and part of his brain . His public defender on Friday declined to answer questions about the case , according to his office . 'Zombie apocalypse ' trending as bad news spreads quickly . According to the Harford County District Court case record , the killing occurred on May 25 . Six days earlier , Kinyua was involved in a fight on the Baltimore campus of Morgan State University , school spokesman Clint Coleman told CNN on Friday . The fight led to charges against Kinyua , including first-degree assault and reckless endangerment , according to court records . Noting the university 's no-tolerance policy against violence , Coleman said that after the incident , Kinyua was no longer considered an active student at Morgan State , even though he 'd compiled enough credits to warrant beginning the fall semester as a senior . Kinyua was detained and released from jail on May 23 , according to records posted online by the state judiciary system . Overheard on CNN.com : Are we all 'zombies ' ? It was n't until Tuesday that Antony Kinyua -- Alexander Kinyua 's father -- called a Harford County detective assigned to a missing person 's case and told him about a gruesome discovery made by another of his sons , the charging document states . The other son explained to the detective how he had come across two metal tins covered by a blanket in the basement laundry room of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie 's residence in Joppatowne , which is about 20 miles northeast of Baltimore . He opened the tins and found a human head and two hands . The brother said he `` confronted ( Alexander Kinyua ) , who denied the remains were human , '' then went upstairs to get his father , the detective said in the charging document . When the father and son returned to the basement , `` the items he observed were gone and ... Alex Kinyua was cleaning the container he observed them in . '' Two Harford County detectives later arrived and discovered the head and hands on the home 's main floor . `` He admitted to killing our missing person , Mr. Kodie , and cutting him up with a knife , '' Bane said . `` He further stated that he consumed Mr. Kodie 's internal organs -- specifically his heart and portions of his brain . '' The suspect told detectives to go to the parking lot of the nearby Town Baptist Church , where they could -- and did -- find the rest of Agyei-Kodie 's remains in a Dumpster . A missing person 's report filed May 26 described Agyei-Kodie , 37 , as `` very intelligent . '' He had earned multiple master 's degrees from schools in Ghana and was a graduate student at Morgan State University until 2008 , according to Coleman . Years after emigrating from Kenya as a 13-year-old in 2003 , Kinyua was affiliated with the same state university in Baltimore . Prior to the mid-May on-campus fight , `` he was a student in very good academic standing , '' Coleman said . The engineering student was one of 175 people showcased in an August 2011 symposium run by the prestigious Los Alamos National Laboratory . His study focused on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of `` comfort control '' systems regulating heating , ventilation and air conditioning . CNN 's Greg Botelho and Tom Cohen contributed to this report .
NEW : Kinyua was arrested after a fight on Morgan State 's campus , a spokesman says . NEW : The `` very good '' student was ousted from school after that fight , the spokesman adds . Kinyua , 21 , was released from jail 2 days before allegedly killing his housemate , records show . New York City police are investigating the incident as an attempted murder and have not ruled out any other motive for the shooting.