Horrified onlookers watched as a Texas motel worker allegedly took a machete to a manager's head and chopped it off following an argument about a broken washing machine.

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, stands accused of capital murder in the death of 50-year-old Chandra Nagamallaiah.

It happened around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday at a motel in the 3400 block of Samuell Boulevard on Dallas' east side. Cops said in a press release that the suspect cut the victim with "an edged weapon" several times. Paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

Witness Stephanie Elliott told local ABC affiliate WFAA that the victim tried to run away after the suspect attacked him but he fell.

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