Legal Roommate advice

Okay this is going to sound nuts, but I got really freaked out by my roommate. I would post on facebook, but he added me... So here I am on MFP - the site I use most.

My previous roommate left and subletted her room to this guy. I wasn’t comfortable with him at first, but I generally tend to by open minded, so much so my brains are falling out. This is the problem that always happens when I don’t trust my gut instinct, and I let logic win out.

I was walking into the kitchen today and he was cursing his boss, who just fired him. He was saying that she was a stupid ***** and needed to get a brain tumor and just die. He says stuff like that all the time. I think that is the reason he got fired. If I ever say anything about how I am frustrated by my coworkers he will say stuff like “I hope they get cancer and die.”

He knows I get upset by such remarks.

So I was really freaked out because he was going on, venomously how “She said I needed to update these fact sheets, well I created these fact sheets, I am not updating them. She’s a stupid *****…” In fact, he was so aggressive and intimidating toward her that he made her keep him on two weeks after she decided to fire him. That isn’t normal! He told me how he stared her down and demanded that she honor their verbal contract, she told him “I’ll ruin you.”

Frankly, I don’t think a normal person would think his argument is logical. She is telling him to finish the fact sheets, and she said “Update” and he was spitting angry because he wanted her to use the word “Create” even though they are already created. He is angry, and wishing death upon her because he wants her to use the incorrect verb.

So he realized I was really upset, because he tried to get me to agree with him, and I just walked out of the kitchen. And he followed me into the living, and started “apologizing” by telling me all the things I do wrong. He said “I thought it was okay because you ***** about your boss….”

And I said, “Well that’s not the problem, I feel uncomfortable and threatened when you say such aggressive things and wish death and disease upon other people.”

And he says, “I wasn’t saying I was going to kill her. I was saying she should die.”

He then aggressively told me how I am a really bad roommate because I play with my dog at night and I talk too much. He apparently thinks that bad behavior is quid pro quo. If he thinks I am annoying he is allowed to be aggressive toward me?!?

So, long story short, What do I do?

Right up front, I am going to admit to being an annoying person. I talk a lot. I sing, play guitar, have a very boisterous dog I treat like a child… I can deal with slobs, smokers, drunks, anal retentive types, greedy people, people who steal my stuff, people with ugly furniture. None of that has bothered me. I am just freaked out by the aggression.

He has not signed a lease with me, he has signed a sublease with my former roommate. The lease is up at the end of August. I want to stay in the apartment, and so does he. However, I think I have claim on the renewal of the lease, and obviously I won’t invite him back.

Any ideas of what I can do, legally? Mentally? Etc… to alleviate this situation?