A Maryland judge has just refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Morgan State University involving an attack of a student by fellow scholar and alleged cannibal, Alexander Kinyua.

A The Morgan State University student, Alexander Kinyua, later told authorities he killed a man staying with his family and ate the man’s heart and part of his brain.

A lawyer for the school asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit Monday at a hearing in Baltimore, saying the 2012 beating wasn’t reasonably foreseeable given the student’s past behavior. But the judge agreed with lawyers for the injured visitor, Joshua Ceasar, and said the school should have known something was “askew.”

The Baltimore Sun offers further details on the shocking case against Kinyua:

Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday.

The revelations about the slow but steady deterioration of Kinyua’s mind came as Baltimore Circuit Judge Gale E. Rasin accepted his plea of guilty but not criminally responsible on separate allegations that he attacked a fellow Morgan State University student with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

Kinyua had been detained in a state treatment center for months. At the hearing, he entered his own plea and apologized for the May beating that left Joshua Ceasar legally blind.

“My deepest apology and sympathies will not be able to cover up what happened,” said Kinyua, 22.

By accepting Kinyua’s guilty plea to attempted first-degree murder along with the clinical assessment that he didn’t comprehend what he was doing when he attacked Ceasar, Rasin committed him indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital. A team of doctors and an administrative law judge would have to agree to his release.

“The evidence is overwhelming that Mr. Kinyua was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the offense,” Rasin said.

Harford County prosecutors say they will now push forward with a charge of first-degree murder that had been delayed by competency questions. Kinyua is accused of dismembering Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a 37-year-old Ghanaian national staying in Kinyua’s family home, just days after he was released on bail in Ceasar’s attack.