{"id":217058,"date":"2025-09-11T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:27:11","slug":"man-accused-of-beheading-coworker-at-dallas-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217058\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of beheading coworker at Dallas motel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was arrested after allegedly beheading a coworker during a stabbing attack at a Dallas motel, according to officials and local media.<\/p>\n

The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the Downtown Suites on Samuell Boulevard, about 1.6 miles from Cotton Bowl Stadium. Dallas police said the suspect attacked the victim with a bladed weapon multiple times. <\/p>\n

The victim, identified as 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah, died at the scene. The suspect, 37-year-old Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, was taken into custody and charged with capital murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though he was armed with a bladed weapon, the officers showed restraint and used minimal force to apprehend him,\u201d Dallas Police Assistant Chief Terrance Rhodes said.<\/p>\n

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A witness told KTVT<\/a> that both Nagamallaiah and Cobos-Martinez worked at the motel. The witness said the suspect chased the victim with a machete, struck him multiple times, and then cut off his head.<\/p>\n

KXAS<\/a>, citing investigators and a witness, reported that the suspect placed the victim\u2019s head in a trash container. <\/p>\n

A witness told the outlet that his son tried to intervene with a bat but was unable to stop the attack. The station reported that the suspect was seen wearing a blood-soaked shirt as police arrested him.<\/p>\n

Police have not confirmed reports of a beheading. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after allegedly beheading a coworker during a stabbing attack at a Dallas motel, according…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,118526,9620,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-217058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-texas","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183304395544437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}