Dallas County prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against the man accused of beheading a coworker at a Dallas motel last year, according to a notice filed by District Attorney John Creuzot’s office.<\/p>\n
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, was arrested in September 2025<\/a> in the beheading death of Chandra Nagamallaiah. Both the victim and Cobos-Martinez were employees at a motel off of Samuel Blvd, where the attack happened.<\/p>\n Investigators previously told NBC 5 that Cobos-Martinez placed the victim’s head in a trash can and was wearing a blood-soaked T-shirt when officers arrested him.<\/p>\n According to the arrest affidavit, Cobos-Martinez was cleaning a motel room with a co-worker when Nagamallaiah told him not to use a broken washing machine. The co-worker told investigators Cobos-Martinez became angry because the victim spoke to her as a translator rather than addressing him directly.<\/p>\n The affidavit says surveillance video showed Cobos-Martinez leave the motel room, retrieve a machete and repeatedly stab and strike the victim.<\/p>\n The indictment alleges he caused Nagamallaiah’s death “by stabbing and by cutting and by chopping.” It further alleges he used multiple weapons, including a knife, an axe, a machete and another sharp object, while attempting to rob the victim.<\/p>\n Records show<\/a> Cobos-Martinez has a history of escalating violence, with charges that span Florida, California and Texas, including vehicle theft, an attempted carjacking and assault-related cases.<\/p>\n In 2018, he was arrested on an indecency with a child charge in Harris County, but the charge was later dismissed for insufficient evidence. He spent a year in jail for an assault charge related to the case.<\/p>\n Nagamallaiah, known as Bob by friends and family, was described as a selfless and kind person who always had “a kind word and a smile, and who never hesitated to help others in need.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against the man accused of beheading a coworker at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[803,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-375141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}