Dallas police responded to a deadly incident at a motel east of Downtown Wednesday morning.

Numerous police units and paramedics responded to the Downtown Suites on Samuell Boulevard around 9:30 a.m.

The Dallas Police Department said a suspect cut the victim "with an edged weapon several times," and paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene. Police say a suspect is in custody and charges are pending.

A witness told CBS News Texas reporter Briseida Holguin that the suspect and victim were both employees of the motel. The witness said the suspect chased the victim with a machete, hit him multiple times and then cut off his head.

Video from the CBS News Texas Chopper showed a body and a trail of blood outside of a room on the motel's ground floor.

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