() 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, and Cobos-Martinez decapitated the manager.

Published reports say the attacker kicked the severed head into the motel parking lot and then placed it in a garbage container. First responders reportedly encountered Cobos-Martinez covered in blood.

He was booked on charges of capital murder and was being held at Dallas County Jail, where he has drawn the attention of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Speaking to the New York Post, ICE officials said the Biden administration released Cobos-Martinez last January after his home country of Cuba declined to accept him because of his criminal history.

Cobos-Martinez has a criminal history in the U.S. that reportedly includes aggravated assault and attempted carjacking.