Coworker Accused of Beheading Dallas Motel Manager With Machete

Warning: This article mentions details of an extremely gruesome and graphic crime.

A Dallas motel turned into one of the most shocking crime scenes the city has ever seen: a manager brutally beheaded with a machete by his own employee in front of his family.

Police say the victim, 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah, managed the Downtown Suites motel on Samuell Boulevard. On Wednesday morning, a conversation about a broken washing machine sparked a deadly attack.

According to reports, Nagamallaiah had a motel employee translate a conversation to 37-year-old Yordanis Cobos-Martinez. Nagamallaiah was instructing Cobos-Martinez not to use a broken washing machine. Police say that’s when Cobos-Martinez became upset at Nagamallaiah for speaking through the translator instead of addressing him directly.

A witness said he stormed out, came back armed with a machete, and chased Nagamallaiah across the motel property.

The most horrific last moments of death.

The terrifying scene unfolded as Nagamallaiah ran screaming toward the office, desperate to reach his wife and son. They tried to stop the attack, but police say Cobos-Martinez pushed them aside and kept going until Nagamallaiah was killed.

"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.

Dallas Fire-Rescue crews arriving at the scene spotted Cobos-Martinez walking away, still holding the bloody machete. Officers quickly moved in, arrested him, and said he later confessed to the crime.

Cobos-Martinez is now sitting in the Dallas County Jail on a capital murder charge. Court records reveal a violent history, including arrests in Florida for auto theft and charges in Houston for assault and indecency with a child.

"I feel bad for his family because he got a wife, they came out and they didn't know what to do, she was screaming, hollering, but I told her to get back because I didn't know if he was going to attack her too," the witness said.

A family has lost a husband and father most unimaginably, and it will likely have a devastating effect on those who witnessed the most gruesome crime.