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DALLAS, TEXAS — Dallas police identified and charged a man in the beheading death of a 50-year-old man at an east Dallas motel.
Wednesday, Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, was charged with capital murder in connection with the killing. Police responded to a stabbing call around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at a motel on Samuell Boulevard. They found a man who had been beheaded and arrested a suspect a short time later.
According to an arrest affidavit from the Dallas Police Department, Cobos-Martinez became upset with 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah, then produced a machete and began attacking him. He kept hitting him until he was decapitated, a witness told WFAA.
Cobos-Martinez was taken into custody shortly after the attack, after Dallas police saw him near the scene, covered in blood and still armed with a machete, according to the affidavit. In a recorded interview, he admitted to using a machete to kill Nagamallaiah, police said.
Jail records list Cobos-Martinez as an immigrant. He was apparently living in the motel at the time of the attack, according to the affidavit.
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According to the affidavit, a witness said she and Cobos-Martinez were cleaning a motel room when the victim, Nagamallaiah, approached and told Cobos-Martinez not to use a broken washing machine.
The witness told police that Cobos-Martinez became upset because the victim was speaking to her to translate rather than speaking directly to him, according to the affidavit.
At that point, surveillance video showed Cobos-Martinez leave the room, pull out a machete and begin attacking Nagamallaiah, who attempted to escape the assault by running to the front office, according to the affidavit.
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A man who was arrested on suspicion of capital murder is alleged to have beheaded the manager of a Dallas motel and left the victim’s head in a trash bin, court records obtained Thursday show.
When authorities took Yordanis Cobos-Martinez into custody Wednesday, he was covered in blood and armed with the machete he is accused of using to kill Chandra Nagamallaiah, 50, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant.
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