Cuban illegal alien Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, was charged with capital murder following the gruesome beheading of Dallas, Texas, motel manager Chandra Nagamallaiah, 50, according to local Fox News affiliate KDFW News.
The murder occurred outside the Downtown Suites motel in the Old East Dallas neighborhood of the city at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Cobos-Martinez is in police custody.
On Thursday, the Dallas Police Department released an arrest affidavit that contains very graphic details. Cobos-Martinez attacked Nagamallaiah with a machete. After Nagamallaiah’s head had been severed, Cobos-Martinez kicked it into the parking lot, then picked it up and tossed it into a dumpster.
The affidavit, obtained by CBS News, said that both the suspect and the victim were employed by Downtown Suites.
According to CBS:
A witness, who is another motel employee, told police that she was cleaning a room with Cobos-Martinez when Nagamallaiah came to tell them not to use a washing machine that was broken.The witness told police that Cobos-Martinez became upset with Nagamallaiah for having the witness “translate the communication instead of speaking to [Cobos-Martinez] directly.”Police say video evidence then showed Cobos-Martinez leave the room, pull out a machete and start attacking Nagamallaiah. The victim ran screaming, still under attack, toward the motel office where his wife and son were located.A witness, who requested to remain anonymous, told CBS Texas he saw the entire incident play out.”He chased him from 108 all the way to the office. The man was trying to get into the office to tell his family,” the witness said.Nagamallaiah’s wife and son tried to intervene several times, police said, but Cobos-Martinez pushed them away and continued the attack. Cobos-Martinez then took Nagamallaiah’s cell phone and key card from his pockets before again resuming the attack until Nagamallaiah’s head “was removed from his body,” police said.”The suspect then kicked the [Nagamallaiah’s] head twice into the parking lot and proceeded to pick it up and carry it to the dumpster and put it inside,” the detective wrote.
I suppose that explains why Cobos-Martinez was charged with capital murder.
Multiple federal sources told Fox News’ Bill Melugin, that despite having an active deportation order, Cobos-Martinez “was released from ICE custody by the Biden administration” into the interior of the U.S. on January 13, one week before Trump’s inauguration, because there was “no significant likelihood of removal in the forseeable future.”
Melugin explained that officials “didn’t believe they could enforce his deportation order and remove him because Cuba doesn’t cooperate.”
Cobos-Martinez has had multiple encounters with law enforcement in the U.S. (as per Fox News).
False imprisonment in CA (unknown disposition)Indecency with a child in Texas (dismissed)Grand theft of vehicle in Florida (dismissed)Carjacking & false imprisonment in CA (acquitted on carjacking, convicted of false imprisonment).
[Note: The crime was caught on area surveillance cameras, but I’m unable to import any of them. For those who are interested, the footage can be viewed here.]
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