DALLAS — The family of a Cuban immigrant charged in the gruesome beheading of a Dallas motel manager says he suffered from mental illness for years and should have been repatriated to Cuba for treatment.
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a capital murder charge. Police say he decapitated 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah at a motel on Samuell Boulevard last week.
Independent journalist Mario Penton, who works with Martí Noticias, spoke exclusively with Cobos-Martinez’s family in Cuba. They say they repeatedly asked the Cuban government to allow him to return home for psychiatric care, but Havana refused…