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.

“With tears his mother, grandmother and sister said that the 37-year-old, since leaving Cuba has suffered from mental health issues and have

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