A Cuban immigrant accused of beheading his co-worker at a Dallas motel has been indicted on a Capital Murder charge.<\/p>\n
Yordanis Cobos\u2011Mart\u00ednez was formally indicted by a Dallas County grand jury in the Sept. 10 beheading of his co-worker, Chandra “Bob” Nagamallaiah, according to WFAA<\/a>. The victim\u00a0had lived in San Antonio before moving to Dallas in 2021 to work at the motel, relatives say.<\/p>\n The two men had been working at\u00a0the Downtown Suites Dallas when\u00a0Nagamallaiah, 50, asked Cobos-Mart\u00ednez not to use a broken washing machine. Tensions between the two then escalated after Nagamallaiah asked a female co-worker to translate his instructions to\u00a0Cobos-Mart\u00ednez rather than speaking directly to him.<\/p>\n READ ALSO: Who is this man? San Antonio police want to identify a man accused of strangling a kitten<\/a><\/p>\n Security camera footage captured Cobos-Mart\u00ednez leaving the room, then returning with a machete and attacking\u00a0Nagamallaiah as he attempted to flee toward the motel office. Nagamallaiah’s wife and their 18-year-old son were also at the motel.<\/p>\n According to an affidavit,\u00a0Cobos-Mart\u00ednez continued the attack until Nagamallaiah was decapitated. Cobos-Mart\u00ednez\u00a0then allegedly kicked the severed head “like a soccer ball,” picked it up and disposed of it in a\u00a0dumpster.<\/p>\n Cobos-Mart\u00ednez is being held in the Dallas County Jail with an immigration detainer filed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is a Cuban national, previously in ICE custody but released Jan. 13 because Cuba refused repatriation due to his criminal history, according 13 News Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n