(NewsNation) — A 37-year-old Cuban national who allegedly is in the U.S. illegally is accused of decapitating his Dallas manager in front of the victim’s wife and son.

Police say Yordanis Cobos-Martinez became angered Wednesday when his boss at Downtown Suites asked another employee to translate a work instruction as the two employees were cleaning a room.

The other employee told authorities Cobos-Martinez was upset that their manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah, did not speak directly to him in Spanish, according to an arrest affidavit cited by CBS News.

Cobos-Martinez allegedly responded by attacking Nagamallaiah with a machete. Police say he chased his employer to the motel office, where Nagamallaiah’s wife and son were located. Their attempts to intervene were unsuccessful, police said, a

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