Dallas man decapitates motel worker over washing machine

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Investigators said the suspect, later identified as 37-year-old Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, put the victim's head in the trash. He was seen in a blood-soaked T-shirt as Dallas police took him into custody.

According to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday evening, the man was cleaning a room with a co-worker when the victim approached and informed him not to use a broken washing machine. The co-worker told police the man became upset that the victim was speaking to her to translate instead of talking directly to him.

"Video shows the suspect then exited the motel room and produced a machete from his person and started cutting and stabbing the complainant multiple times," the affidavit states.

Witnesses said the victim, later identified by police as Chandra Nagamallaiah, began running toward the office. Despite efforts by his wife and son to stop the attack, witnesses said the man continued striking Nagamallaiah.

The man then kicked Nagamallaiah's decapitated head into the parking lot, then picked it up and put it in a dumpster, the affidavit said.

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