Dallas Police Investigate Motel Beheading
Dallas police are investigating a gruesome homicide after a person was found beheaded Wednesday morning at the Downtown Suites motel off Samuel Boulevard, near Samuel Grand Park.
According to reports and law enforcement, a suspect walked into a motel lobby and cut a person’s head off, then disposed of the person’s head.
News crews reported a very large police presence on the scene after this incident. This occurred near Interstate 30. The motel entrance was blocked off with tape used to label a crime scene.
Police were called around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday due to a stabbing that occurred at the motel. Dallas Fire and Rescue also arrived at the crime scene where the victim died.
When officers arrived, they found the suspect had cut someone “with an edged weapon several times.”
The suspect is 37-year-old Yordanis Cobos-Martinez. He has been charged with capital murder of the 50-year-old victim, Chandra Nagamallaiah. Law enforcement says DPD is working this case as a homicide.
Stephanie Elliott witnessed this tragic attack. She told reporters that there was a fight between the two when Yordanis Cobos-Martinez began stabbing Chandra with a machete on the motel property
She described to officials that the victim tried to run, but Cobos-Martinez. Kept stabbing.
Witness Stephanie Elliott stated, “He just kept hitting him and hitting until he decapitated him,” Elliott said. “I could not believe that anybody would do another human being that way.”
During the press conference regarding this tragedy, Chief Terrence Rhodes, Dallas Police Executive Assistant, said that officers have taken the suspect into custody.
Police are made aware of another active crime scene, located just one block over from the original crime scene. They’re so close, you could see one from the other. Police officials say that these crimes are connected. Information is still pending on the second crime scene
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