Suspect: Yordanis Cobos-Martinez has been charged with capital murder. An illegal immigrant deemed too dangerous by Cuban officials to be deported back to his home country.
The murder of Chandra Nagamallaiah, a manager of a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas, occurred on Wednesday. He had told suspect Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, and another motel worker, who were cleaning a room, not to use a washing machine which was broken.Â
According to the other worker, Cobos-Martinez grew very upset that Nagamallaiah would not give him these directions in Spanish. Instead, Nagamallaiah expected the other worker to translate to Cobos-Martinez for him.
It is then alleged video captured Cobos-Martinez leaving the room and producing a machete before cutting and stabbing the victim.
Mr Nagamallaiah fled the scene screaming but Cobos-Martinez is said to have followed him to the motel's front office.
The victim's wife and son tried to stop Cobos-Martinez but he pushed them away.
Cobos-Martinez removed a key card and mobile phone from the victim's pockets and continued the attack "until his head was removed from his body", the court papers said.
He then dumped the victim's head in a bin, the documents added.
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·Suspect: Yordanis Cobos-Martinez has been charged with capital murder. An illegal immigrant deemed too dangerous by Cuban officials to be deported back to his home country.
The murder of Chandra Nagamallaiah, a manager of a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas, occurred on Wednesday. He had told suspect Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, and another motel worker, who were cleaning a room, not to use a washing machine which was broken.Â
According to the other worker, Cobos-Martinez grew very upset that Nagamallaiah would not give him these directions in Spanish. Instead, Nagamallaiah expected the other worker to translate to Cobos-Martinez for him.
It is then alleged video captured Cobos-Martinez leaving the room and producing a machete before cutting and stabbing the victim.
Mr Nagamallaiah fled the scene screaming but Cobos-Martinez is said to have followed him to the motel's front office.
The victim's wife and son tried to stop Cobos-Martinez but he pushed them away.
Cobos-Martinez removed a key card and mobile phone from the victim's pockets and continued the attack "until his head was removed from his body", the court papers said.
He then dumped the victim's head in a bin, the documents added.