Original Article By Dan Lyman
Motel manager hacked to death in front of his family by foreign employee, authorities say.
Suspect chopped victim’s head off, tossed it in dumpster, and walked away…
A suspect who may be in the U.S. illegally has been charged with capital murder in the gruesome beheading of a man in front of his family at a Texas motel, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded on Wednesday morning in Dallas.
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, became embroiled in an argument with his boss, 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah, at the Downtown Suites motel.
Nagamallaiah, who managed the motel, reportedly went to a room being cleaned by Cobos-Martinez and a female colleague to notify them a washing machine had broken down and that they should not use it.
Cobos-Martinez was irritated that Nagamallaiah asked the female to “translate the communication instead of speaking to him directly,” she told police.
Cobos-Martinez left the room, returned with a machete, and launched a vicious assault on Nagamallaiah, who fled towards the hotel office, investigators say.
Nagamallaiah’s wife and son were in the office and tried to intervene, but Cobos-Martinez continued the barbaric attack, pausing only to remove his victim’s cell phone and key card from his pocket.
Eventually, Nagamallaiah’s head “was removed from his body,” a detective wrote in charging documents.
“The suspect then kicked the head twice into the parking lot and proceeded to pick it up and carry it to the dumpster and put it inside.”
Surveillance footage obtained by Illegal Alien Crimes appears to show Cobos-Martinez calmly retrieve the head, toss it into the garbage, and exit the premises as a Dallas Fire Department ambulance arrives at the scene.
WARNING: GRAPHIC – I blurred it but it is still disturbing.
— Illegal Alien Crimes (@ImmigrantCrimes) September 11, 2025
This video is unverified but it fits the layout of the crime scene and the description of the crime itself. https://t.co/0UMSBhmE7t pic.twitter.com/ETuR52X7xi
Cobos-Martinez was quickly apprehended and reportedly admitted to the crime in an interview with authorities.
He has been charged with capital murder and is also being held on a ICE detainer, indicating he is likely in the country illegally.
Some reports indicate Cobos-Martinez is a Cuban national who is “allegedly in the U.S. without authorization.”
Cobos-Martinez was arrested in 2017 for attempting to carjack a woman while naked in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
In 2018, he was reportedly charged with indecency with a child and assault causing bodily injury in Harris County, TX.
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