Public opinion is dominated by outrage and horror over the brutal beheading incident. There is significant anger directed toward the judicial system, perceived leniency towards violent offenders, and concerns regarding community safety and immigration policies. Comments reflect deep fears about the rising trend of violent crimes and frustrations with media coverage and political inaction. Many express a feeling of helplessness in ensuring the safety of their communities.

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Linked to crimes in 2 other states. Wonder what they were. Guys a psychopath. And the family had to watch it happen all in front of them.

ChocoChipBets

The victim is the manager of the motel. The murderer is the employee. There was a dispute, the manager ran, but trip and fell. The employee started chopping

iluvvivapuffs

He has a a criminal history for everything from aggravated assault to carjacking where he attempted to take a vehicle with a woman in it, while he was naked. Weird shit

Well, he is now under an immigration hold and the feds have him.

VERMICIOUS_KNIDSS

I posted earlier that the suspect is currently under an immigration hold right now, but discovered that this is not the first time. 

According to ICE: *"Cabos-Martinez was recently in ERO Dallas custody at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, until he was released on an order of supervision on Jan. 13. The agency claims he was released due to "no removal flights to Cuba."* 

I think we have a pretty good idea how that supervision is going now.

MESSED UP.

And of course, FB has motel surveillance video posted of the attack itself, behind a blur screen;  and the bloody head rolling through the parking lot, before the attacker strolls over to pick it up..

tauntonlake

Our country is going down the drain one death at a time. Please America find your heart soul and love for humans in a respectful manner. Come on we are better than this

MetalGearBatman

Repeat offender? Oh we don’t care about those here…

ACjigsaw

coronagrey

Why did they have to mention his ethnicity?

Skorpyos

Jfc he decapitated the man in front of his family. They’ll be traumatized for the rest of their lives.

stopbsingman

He got mad Chandra used translator on his phone instead of telling him directly to not use broken washing machine, he then proceeded to use a machete to behead the man infornt of his wife and son, pushing them away, as they said to stop him. He then kicked his head twice and threw it in garbage. Needs to be sentenced to death

Don't hire randos of the street for cleaning rooms. Fuck the people that say we don't employ anyone.

Fantastic-Guest-6572

The article places it in the last paragraph for some reason , but Chandra was the manager of the hotel and the Yordanis was an employee there.

MumeiNoName

Plane_Elephant_6871

Keep in mind this crime is unbelievably horrific yet it probably won't get national attention at all, since the victim in this case is a Brown guy. 

Joshistotle

He had another crime in 2017, a carjacking: https://mynews4.com/news/local/south-lake-tahoe-police-arrest-naked-man-on-alleged-carjacking-attempt

Jesus! Looks like the victim was the boss of the murderer. The desi working class/small business owners in impoverished area have always been the most vulnerable to violent crime in this country, which is why it doesn't surprise me when they end up voting for more policing and harder enforcement on immigration.

kena938

Imaginary-Creme5071

Holy shit, this is horrifying.  Happened not too far from me either.

&gt;He's charged with capital murder and has been placed on an ICE hold at the Dallas County jail. Records show he is a Cuban national.

mustachechap

Holy shit. I live in downtown Dallas, right now. Not very far from here. What the actual fuck.

calmrain

Moosetohtorontotak

Carbon-Base

Holy fucking shit. That’s beyond sad. Watching your dad get butchered right in front of you like that would fuck anyone up forever.

CaptainSingh26

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

Can they tack on any extra charges when somebody literally does a Mortal Kombat fatality in front of the guy's family?

winthroprd

I think there is an overlooked piece of nuance regarding why so many Latinos voted for Trump.

I think the reality is a lot of Latinos do view themselves as white or 'white adjacent' and somehow thought that was going to shield them / their families from what Trump directly said he was going to do. You combine this with a generally conservative, patriarchal, Catholic culture in culmination with a seeming need to appeal to whiteness, and it starts to make a lot more sense.

A lot of the anti-Indian / anti-South Asian rhetoric you see online is pushed by Groypers—many of which are Latino.

Case in point, Nick Fuentes (a very prominent white supremacist and white nationalist) is literally half Mexican.

Does anyone remember that Latino dude harassing the Indian guy for being with a white woman (claiming that she was with the 'most invasive species')?

[https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/jon-minadeo-jr-faced-jail-for-antisemitism-targets-indian-origin-man-viral-video-racist-outburst-america-us-poland-auschwitz-2752592-2025-07-08](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/jon-minadeo-jr-faced-jail-for-antisemitism-targets-indian-origin-man-viral-video-racist-outburst-america-us-poland-auschwitz-2752592-2025-07-08)

[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t3wXKvE7yKA](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t3wXKvE7yKA)

I remember I was watching the superbowl earlier this year (and this was in Chicago, mind you), and this Mexican dude kept harassing / profiling me. Kept making remarks about rape in India and how dangerous Muslims / Pakistanis are. Finally told him to get the fuck out of my face after a minute, and his drunk ass finally did.

Suffice to say, this has been an overlooked trend online, and it's unfortunate that it's been aggressing more and more in person.

3RADICATE_THEM

I don't know how you operate a motel without being armed.

Middle_Switch_1344

DigitalAviator

Om Shanti to the deceased man 🙏

We’re too white-adjacent for POC unity to apply to us and we’re too POC for the white people, both sides hate us. No one is our friend here, and the sooner we realize that and make an org for ourselves the better off we all will be.

FadingHonor

Life in prison. wouldn’t be surprised if it was racially motivated.

LebronJamesThrowawa0

Omg that is so horrific, that poor man and his family.

Book_devourer

Tani91

The murderer does not look insane. Do you know anything about his state of mind?

throwRA_157079633

As a native resident, when I first heard about the news (before any details had come out), I thought some sort of terrorist beheading attack had just happened in my city.

SadAdministration438

As usual liberals ignore this or downplay this. /r/Dallas making jokes about the motel and area being ghetto and not acknowledging the fact an innocent immigrant (I guess not the fan favorite type though) got killed and by one who should have been deported too. Remember who supports you folks. It's not the so called "equity" and "inclusion" group that pretends they care about everyone. They play favorites too. 

haveacorona20

Such a brutal way to die and for using google translate too. The son and wife will be haunted forever and their family back home must be devastated as well. I hope this gets national attention so reforms can be made. Om shanti

hydabirrai

This is beyond horrific man. Prayers to his family that had to witness this depravity. 

I hope that they have family and a support system there because don’t expect any support from non-Desi DFW community considering the insane amount of anti-Indian hate coming from Frisco. 

MasterChief813

Both sides of the media will insinuate this was completely warranted because he was a business owner and brown and if south asians had civil sense, they wouldn't have to be publicly beheaded

GodlessLunatic

I saw the actual security camera footage. It was absolutely gruesome. Hope that bastard gets the death penalty.

MisterGarak

Don't trust translator apps, who knows what it translated?

dev171

Sory for the stupid question but are we identifying the victim as Indian American based upon his namesake or does OP know them? Asking since a bunch of my Indian American friends have non-traditional names..

lfg12345678

A-Rusty-Cow

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Don’t stand around and yap away when someone is coming at you with a machete, turn around run and find shelter. 

But no Indians feel the developed world is an utopia of safety and above all, their continued chai chai chai will someone knock sense into mad people

No sense of danger at all

Gandhigiri never works

mistiquefog

We should learn martial arts. There are alot of crazies and we need it. Heck,  lets start a cultural around it like we have for cricket.

seeker_winner

Ahhh the Downtown Suites… Let me tell you of my woeful time in the Downtown Suites… it was decades ago. I was a junkie and staying at the lovely downtown suites in one of their downstairs “extra special” suites… circular bed, mirrors on the ceiling, etc… It was quite the trashy vibe, even for a hallucinating junkie as myself. There were syringes everywhere outside, and a family of Indian folks running the joint. They had a small child who they insisted showing me how many pushups he could do. 

It was truely surreal… I would peep out the peephole and look across to the park and make up all sorts of wild stories about all the awful ways people had died in that area… electrocution in the metal tub, gun shots.. i mean there were stains of all colors everywhere so it wasn’t hard to do. 

In any event… I had somewhat sobered up… and Ill never forget this… the little pushup kid shows up in the parking lot and says to me…as Im leaving… “Thank you for your stay sir, I see you are leaving… just remember the power that urgency has on you”

I was literally so confused - my drug addled brain was not able to process a young child spitting unsolicited wisdom to me… a weird fucking place and doesn’t surprise me one bit that someone got beheaded there. In fact id be surprised if it was the first. 

0/5 stars. Do not recommend.

Just-A-Thoughts

Does this mean we're gonna get the national guard flown in next?

h3x13s3x13

A beheading is absolutely freaking crazy…

DrizztCo

That place gave me Han Gil Hotel vibes, used to be up in North Dallas before the feds showed up and shut the place down.

SipoteQuixote

Stabmaster

pardonyourhands

Twist: The call to 911 came in in February.

strangelove4564

ChicagoRay312

I grew up a block from Samuel Park as a kid. That little strip has shady af since at least the 80s. I remember always seeing ladies of the night leaving there.

CryptoM4dness

I mean yeah that looks like the kind of place some nut would behead someone

YaGetSkeeted0n

Suspect is named Yordanis Cobos-Martinez. Quick google shows a few prior arrests.

AccordingPears158

And as you know ALL of DPD showed up for that while the rest of the city continued waiting on other things from them.

Puzzleheaded_Web6540

“He admitted to the crime in an interview, and in addition to the murder charge, he has an immigration hold for being in the U.S. without authorization”

WatchLover26

PhillyLee3434

Yeah, that area is shady. Around the corner is an hourly motel.

Chismosalady

HeadAche2012

Right down the street from where we just spent 14 hours at a concert 😟

LoopFruiit

Invest_bro

Upbeat-Natural-7120

Oh.... I used to live right down the road.... Lol

LunchHelpful2325

AnastasiaNo70

Thought they were tearing this down to built rent controlled apartments. Can’t come soon enough

OddS0cks

The Downtown Suites is one of those Texas things that my fellows Italians would never comprehend

Distinct-Weakness629

He hacked the man and beheaded him, he then proceeded to kick the head until he reached a dumpster and he threw it in, all while the victim's teenage son and his wife watched helplessly. That's so messed up.

flojobb

MAGAland is a very dangerous place for Indian Americans. A lot of comments here seem to be making light of this horrific crime.  

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Few_Art_163

Whoops

Looks like my shanked drive at Tenison found a target

Some_Man_Person

He'll never be the head of a major corporation.

bigharrycox

The beheading of Indian-origin man Chandramouli Nagamallaiah during a violent altercation in Dallas has led to national discussions on crime and safety.

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