Hotel manager beheaded by worker ‘because he wasn’t spoken to directly’

Police outside the motel where the gruesome killing took place (Picture: NBC DFW)

A hotel worker in the US allegedly beheaded his manager and threw the head in a rubbish bin because he wasn’t spoken to directly.

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez and a woman were cleaning a room at the Downtown Suites in Dallas when the manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah, 50, instructed him not to use a broken washing machine, according to an affidavit.

Cobos-Martinez became upset because Nagamallaiah didn’t speak to him directly and instead relied on the woman for translation, it said.

Security video shows Cobos-Martinez leaving the motel room, and returning with a machete which he using to repeatedly cut and stab the manager.

Nagamallaiah ran to the motel’s front office screaming but Cobos-Martinez followed and continued to attack him, despite attempts by the victim’s wife and son to stop him, according to the affidavit, which was issued in support of an arrest warrant.

At one point he removed a key card and a mobile phone from from Nagamallaiah’s pockets before continuing to cut the manager “until his head was removed from his body,’ it said.

Cobos-Martinez is then said to have kicked Nagamallaiah’s head into the car park, then picked it up and put it in a rubbish bin.

The worker was cleaning a room at Downtown Suites when he allegedly attacked his manager (Picture: NBC DFW) Officers at the motel (Picture: NBC DFW)

Emergency services spotted the worker trying to flee, and he was followed and detained.

The affidavit, which was seen by NBC News, said he was covered in blood and holding the machete at the time.

Since the killing, which happened on Wednesday, Cobos-Martinez has admitted he was responsible, it added.

Jail records show he is an undocumented immigrant and is being held without bond at Dallas County Jail on an immigration detainer.

The Department of Homeland Security said Cobos-Martinez is a Cuban national with a final order of removal from the US, NBC reports.

It said he was recently in ICE custody at a detention center west of Dallas, the department said.

He was released on an order of supervision in January after Cuba ‘would not accept him because of his criminal history’.

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