An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal history who was previously released under the Biden administration was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly beheading a motel manager in front of his family and kicking his head “like a soccer ball,” according to authorities and reports.
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, started an argument with his manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah, at a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas on Wednesday morning while cleaning a room with another employee at the motel, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Mr Nagamallaiah, 50, told the pair not to use a washing machine that was broken, but Cobos-Martinez, a Cuban national, grew irate over the manager enlisting the motel worker to translate the instructions instead of speaking to him in Spanish, the document said.
Surveillance footage, too graphic to publish, then allegedly captured Cobos-Martinez leaving the room, pulling out a machete and slashing Mr Nagamallaiah.
The manager ran to the motel’s office where his son and wife were, while still under attack, the affidavit detailed.
Mr Nagamallaiah’s panicked wife and son tried to intervene, but Cobos-Martinez continued until his “head was removed from his body,” according to police.
Cobos-Martinez then gruesomely kicked Mr Nagamallaiah’s head twice into the parking lot, picked it up and threw it in the dumpster, police allege.
Witnesses called 911, and police allegedly found Cobos-Martinez covered in blood and still holding the machete a few blocks away.
He had previously been in the custody of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations at the Bluebonnet Detention Centre in Anson, but was released under the Biden administration, an ICE spokesperson said.
“This barbaric criminal was released because Cuba would not accept him because of his criminal history,” they said.
