15. Motel murder, yet another senseless act of violence

A 50-year-old Dallas motel manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah was brutally beheaded in front of his wife and son. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, an undocumented Cuban immigrant who also worked at the motel, attacked him with a machete over an argument about a broken washing machine. He is currently in ICE custody in a detention center west of Dallas.

Cobos-Martinez had been previously released in January after Cuba would not accept him "because of his criminal history." This man was allowed to roam free on our streets when his own country didn't want him because of his violence -- and, to no one's surprise, it ended with murder.

Nagamallaiah had instructed Cobos-Martinez on Wednesday morning not to use a broken washing machine. Cobos-Martinez and another woman were cleaning a room at the time, and he became "upset" when Nagamallaiah relied on the woman for accurate translation instead of speaking to him directly.

CCTV footage captured Cobos-Martinez leaving the motel room, brandishing a machete and repeatedly stabbing Nagamallaiah, who screamed and fled to the motel's front office. Cobos-Martinez continued to pursue him, and after pushing away Nagamallaiah's wife and son who tried to stop the assault, beheaded him. He then took a key card and cellphone from Nagamallaiah's pockets, kicked his decapitated head into the parking lot, and then threw it in a dumpster. First responders saw him fleeing the area and followed him, where officers took him into custody roughly a block away.

The more we as a society act indifferent to violence, the more it will become acceptable, and the more innocent lives will be lost in meaningless everyday disagreements. Cobos-Martinez was rejected by his country, and instead of making a respectable life for himself here and following our laws, he only brought violence.