Yunior Serrano’s family, who would have been the first fatal victim of Cobos-Martínez, prefers to be the American system who is responsible for processing and judging the perpetrator
Miami.- Yunior Serrano’s family, killed 12 years ago in Cuba, assured Cubanet that Yordanis Cobos-Martínez, a 37-year-old Cuban citizen accused of decapitating his boss in Dallas, Texas, had already committed a homicide on the island before migrating to the United States. According to Mailen Estupiñán Ramírez, a widow of Serrano, her husband was stabbed by Cobos-Martínez, leaving her daughter, Claudia Serrano Estupiñán.
“God does justice, late but arrives. This above, scourge of the world, was my daughter’s true murderer.
These complaints contradict the version of the defendant’s family, who broke the silence In Martí News ensuring that Cobos-Martínez suffers mental health problems since his arrival in the United States and never committed crimes in Cuba. His mother, Odalis Martínez Rodríguez, said: “My son went wrong in prison in the United States, he lost his mind. He came to sleep in a park like Mendigo. When he finally found work in that motel I thought he was recovering, but argued with the manager because they did not pay him.”
Cobos-Martínez was arrested on September 10 at the Downtown Suites Motel, in Dallas, after attacking his boss, Chandra Nagamallaiah, in front of the victim’s wife and son. Witnesses indicated that after beheading him, Cobos-Martínez kicked his head before throwing it into a garbage container. The American Undersecretary Tricia McLaughlin described the fact as “a monstrous act that could have been avoided if the defendant had not been released in the United States, since Cuba would not accept it.”
The US authorities confirmed that Cobos-Martínez had a final deportation order to Cuba, but Havana refused to receive it due to its criminal history in the US, which includes sexual abuse of minors, car theft, imprisonment and assaults.
Meanwhile, in Holguín, the defendant’s grandmother, Mayra Rodríguez, and her sister, Yerlenis Ricardo Martínez, argue that Cobos-Martínez needs medical attention and ask that they can serve the sentence in her country. “It was a cruel murder, but he needs specialists, he is not right of the head. Hopefully President Trump is condued and sends it to Cuba, even if they throw him many years in jail here,” said the grandmother.
The family of Yunior Serrano, who would have been the first fatal victim of Cobos-Martínez, prefers to be the American system who is responsible for processing and judging the perpetrator. “If in Cuba they did not do justice in the past, now much less they will,” they told Cubanet.
