Texas police are still investigating the gruesome alleged attack at a Dallas motel where a man was decapitated with a machete in front of his wife and child.

Court documents said that Yordanis Cobos-Martinez got into an argument with 50-year-old Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah at the Downtown Suites motel off of Interstate 30 in Old East Dallas on Wednesday. A witness said the argument was over a broken washing machine.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

The witness, who worked with 37-year-old Cobos-Martinez, told police that the suspect was angry at Nagamallaiah for talking to the witness to translate during the argument instead of talking to Cobos-Martinez directly.

Cobos-Martinez then allegedly obtained a machete and began hacking at Nagamallaiah, who yelled and tried to run off through the parking lot toward the motel office. The victim’s wife and son came out and tried to stop the attack, but Cobos-Martinez allegedly pushed them off and continued.

Police say the attacker went through the victim’s pockets and took his cell phone and key card.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

Dallas Fire-Rescue followed the man, who was bloodied, until police were able to arrest him.

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(WARNING: Very graphic and disturbing video.) Gruesome video apparently showing some of the attack surfaced on social media.

Dallas County Jail records say that Cobos-Martinez is facing a capital murder charge and being held without bond.

KDFW-TV reported that he’s also being held on an immigration hold which may indicate that he’s in the country illegally.

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President Donald Trump revealed on Friday morning that the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk is now in custody and was apparently turned in by a family member at the urging of a faith leader.

“I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.” “Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor — everybody did a great job.”

Just hours earlier, the FBI released additional photos of the suspected assassin as well as footage showing him bounding across the rooftop at Utah Valley University, then dropping down onto the grass below.

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The president indicated that based on what he was told just five minutes before the interview, a minister involved with law enforcement urged the suspect’s father to turn in his son and apparently collaborated with a U.S. marshal.

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This is a developing story.

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President Donald Trump was in attendance at the New York Yankees baseball game to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Video from the event shows the president saluting as the national anthem was sung before the game against the Detroit Tigers. There were many chants of “USA!” before the start of the game.

‘You’re going to win, you’re going to go all the way, and you’ll get in the playoff.’

The president visited the locker room of the Yankees before the game and joked that they always won when he attended, so they were bound to win that day.

“You’re going to win, you’re going to go all the way, and you’ll get in the playoff,” Trump said to the players.

Panels of glass were installed as a security measure at the game.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he was excited that the president was attending the game.

“I’ve had the honor and fortune of some presidents over the years, first pitches, whatever it may be,” Boone said. “The fact that he is going to be here is something that I’m excited to be a part of, to see. I don’t know what it will be like. But to interact for a few minutes, it’s something I’m looking forward to.”

RELATED: MLB players appear to reference Trump assassination attempt during home run celebrations

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The president also honored the victims of 9/11 in a ceremony earlier in the day at the Pentagon.

The team urged fans to arrive early at the stadium due to enhanced security for the president in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his ally and friend.

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Forget about the riots, censorship, and the gradual transition into full-blown anarcho-tyranny. If the pub dies, England will truly lose its soul.

Let me explain. We like to drink. A lot. English culture revolves around alcohol, like electrons around a nucleus. Drinking is in our blood. There’s nothing we won’t drink to, no place we won’t pop open a beer.

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged ’Islamophobic’ name and sign.

When commercial air travel became affordable to the working class, the airplane evolved into a flying bar. I once boarded the same plane as a bunch of inebriated women on a hen party to Spain. A drunken woman punching a man on an economy flight to Ibiza is something of a British rite of passage.

Drinking it in

Ours is a country steeped in history, tradition, and strong drink. Like the Irish, we can boast of many an ale-quaffing literary heavyweight. It was Chaucer who made reference to the Tabard Inn almost 700 years ago in “The Canterbury Tales.” Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare drank in the George Inn just a few yards away.

The Tabard was demolished in 1873. The George still exists but only as a museum — an apt symbol for our current crisis.

A few days ago, I walked past a place I regularly used to drink. It was like seeing a ghost. A poster case housing thousands of papered-over concert flyers half an inch thick has been ripped down, leaving the exposed brickwork cracked, discolored, and casting an ominous shadow.

From a broken window, I saw that the chairs were stacked on tables, the oak bar counter was gone, and the copper foot rail had been removed from its bolts. The doors were locked, and the loud neon sign that had once welcomed me in like an old friend now sat silently on the ground, gathering dirt.

Poignant pints

Standing there, aghast, my heart sank, and I felt the pangs of nostalgia. You see, It was more than just a pub. It was a repository of memories. Imagine if bricks could tell stories: a place that my friend took me after my first break up. As a young man, it was where I came to know my father as he slipped a pint across the table without saying anything. On late nights, it was where co-workers danced while the jukebox played the Pogues and everyone sang along.

I remember the beer garden where I chatted up a future girlfriend, asking her for a light, and that dimly lit back room where I jumped off a speaker stack into the sticky, beer-soaked floor at my first ever live gig. It’s where my best friend shared his heart-wrenching news that he only had a few weeks left and the place where locals came together to raise a glass in his memory when he was gone.

What ales us

We are losing an average of one pub per day. Since 2020, more than 2,000 have shut their doors for good. Economic factors have played a big part in the decline of the industry. Escalating business rates, VAT, and alcohol duties are causing many pubs to close — one-third of the cost of a pint now goes toward taxes. Landlords have been forced to increase prices due to the escalating expenses. It’s predicted that the price of a pint could double in less than a decade. In some parts of London, it has reached 10 pounds. As a result, many people now buy alcohol from the off license (liquor store) and drink it at home.

The culture wars have also played a part. Pubs with names like the Black Bitch, the Black Boy, and the Blacks Head have all been changed due to racial identitarians spouting nonsense about systemic/structural/institutional racism.

Head case

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged “Islamophobic” name and sign. Every time Khalid Baqa walks past the pub in Amersham, he is “shocked and deeply offended” seeing the name Saracen — the name for Arabs and Muslims in the Middle Ages. The 61-year-old Baqa claims that the pub sign “incites violence” and glorifies “decapitating/beheading Muslims.” He wants the landlord to pay him £1,800 for the offense. If successful, he plans to target the other 30 British pubs with the same name.

The plaintiff turns out to be a convicted terrorist. In 2018, he was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for creating and distributing jihadi propaganda. No need to worry; in an interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims to have “stopped all the terrorism stuff now.”

RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime

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Ours to save

Defending our culture goes far beyond stopping a mad Muslim pensioner from declaring jihad on a 500-year-old bar. We must fight a true culture war. In order to save pubs, taxes must be cut, grants and subsidies allocated to community-owned pubs, and new planning laws enacted to prevent developers from tearing down historic buildings such as pubs and churches, which serve as important social hubs.

Pubs are where the English laugh, cry, and argue. They bring people together. As a result, they act as an antidote to loneliness and isolation, two of the most insidious and pervasive threats in our time. As I sat in my new local pub, I noticed a young woman and her father befriending an elderly man. Three strangers, two generations bonded over fries and Guinness. That’s what community means. And we are losing it.

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota ridiculed admirers of Charlie Kirk while trying to express sadness at his assassination.

Omar was speaking with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on his show when she criticized Kirk and his allies for many of their politically incorrect positions and called them “full of s**t.”

‘It’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy.’

Omar expressed sadness for Kirk’s wife and children before going through a litany of her objections to Kirk’s political positions. Among those positions were that guns save lives and that Juneteenth should not exist as a holiday.

She also claimed that he downplayed slavery and the controversy over George Floyd, as well as what black people have gone through in the U.S.

“I think, you know, there are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” she said.

“A complete rewriting of history!” Hasan interrupted.

She then grouped those people in with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and President Donald Trump before dismissing them all.

“You have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass, you know, people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country or ever,” she said. “You know, you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me.

“These people are full of s**t, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy,” she added.

Omar went on to criticize Kirk for a common mischaracterization of his comments against empathy.

“My heart does break for those babies,” she said of Kirk’s children.

“I have empathy for his kids and his wife and what they’re going through because I do not want that.”

“No one should go through that, and we hold ourselves, I hope, to higher standards,” replied Hasan.

Hasan then said that their Islamic faith commands them to have empathy for others.

RELATED: ‘It’s the death of free speech!’ Jay Leno expresses his shock at killing of Charlie Kirk

Video of the entire interview with Omar can be viewed on YouTube.

Omar is not the only member of “the Squad” in Congress who has gone out of her way to criticize those aggrieved by the assassination of Kirk. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York excoriated Trump for blaming the left for the shooting before any suspect had been apprehended.

“When a politician tries to blame words for an action, they need to look at their action and their record. Enough of this! This is horrific,” Ocasio-Cortez said to CNN’s Manu Raju. “This is awful, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America.”

Law enforcement authorities are searching for a person of interest who has been captured on footage in security video related to the shooting.

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The family of stabbing victim Iryna Zarutska says she texted her boyfriend that she was on her way home on the night of her death.

Zarutska was stabbed to death on August 22 on a Lynx Blue Line train in the south end of Charlotte in a brutal murder that resulted in blame being levied at not only the accused, Decarlos Brown Jr., but also the judicial system.

Brown has a lengthy rap sheet, and a woman believed to be his sister has claimed he has never received proper help for his mental conditions.

‘This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night.’

Speaking through an attorney, Zarutska’s family decided to speak out on Tuesday about the awful incident.

“We are heartbroken beyond words. Iryna came here to find peace and safety, and instead her life was stolen from her in the most horrific way,” the family said, according to WSOC-TV‘s Hunter Saenz. “No family should have to go through this.”

“This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night,” Saenz said the family also expressed. “We are committed to making sure this never happens again.”

Adding to the tragic evening was the way the Zarutska family became aware of the victim’s death.

RELATED: Iryna Zarutska’s name should shame the woke

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The family stated that on the night in question, Zarutska texted her boyfriend that she was going to be home soon. Sadly, her family became worried when she did not get to her apartment at the “anticipated time.”

So the family checked Zarutska’s phone location, which showed her still at the train station. The family hurried to the station, but upon arrival, the attorney said, the family was “devastated to learn that Iryna had died at the scene.”

The family is also reportedly seeking changes to the way the Charlotte rail system is operated, pointing to what they believe to be failures that contributed to Zarutska’s death.

These included: “a lack of visible or effective security presence,” a failure in oversight in the contracts of professional security services, and an “absence of adequate safety measures that could have prevented this tragedy.”

RELATED: Charlotte stabbing suspect reportedly makes bizarre statements from jail: ‘The material used in my body stabbed the lady’

According to reporter Saenz, the family is also calling on Charlotte city officials to “publicly address their failures and enact reform.”

They are also asking for full investigations by the responsible security teams, while hoping the public and media can “show restraint and compassion” by not further spreading the footage of the tragic killing.

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The Carolina Panthers football team has fired a public relations employee over his comments about Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday during a campus tour stop in Utah. Videos showed Kirk was shot in the neck in front of a large crowd of college students and attendees.

Despite an outpouring of positive support after the horrific killing, many people have taken the opportunity to criticize or insult Kirk online, including a Panthers employee.

‘We do not condone violence of any kind.’

As reported by the Athletic, a communications coordinator named Charlie Rock was fired by the Panthers for his online commentary about the deceased conservative activist.

Rock apparently joined the organization as an intern in 2024 and was promoted to his now-former position.

Social media posts circulating online showed screenshots from Rock’s Instagram account (which is now inactive), on which he posted a video of Kirk at a speaking event with the caption, “Why are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it …” referring to Kirk’s death.

Rock’s next post was the song “Protect Ya Neck” by Wu-Tang Clan, which could easily be interpreted as referring to Kirk being shot in the neck.

RELATED: DC Comics immediately cancels new series after author mocks Charlie Kirk’s murder

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The Athletic was able to confirm that the employee is no longer with the Panthers, but Rock did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment.

The Panthers organization, on the other hand, released a general statement on Thursday morning without naming Rock.

“The views expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers,” the team’s X post read. “We do not condone violence of any kind. We are taking this matter very seriously and have accordingly addressed it with the individual.”

RELATED: New York Yankees waste no time before honoring Charlie Kirk

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“Pro Football Talk’s” Mike Florio shared the story and wrote, “In a civil society, we have disagreements. Those disagreements, however sharp and strong they might be, should never devolve into violence.”

Florio added, “There is no room in the American experiment for political violence. For any type of violence. Violence should be condemned in all forms, by everyone.”

The Panthers’ next game is against the Arizona Cardinals. The teams play Sunday at 4:05 p.m. ET at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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Yesterday, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while hosting a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Charlie, only 31 years old, leaves behind his devoted wife, two young children, a powerful organization that reshaped the conservative movement, and a grieving nation already feeling the profound void of his absence.

When she heard the horrible news of Charlie’s death, Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” canceled her regular programming to both honor and reflect on the time she shared with one of the most transformative torchbearers in conservative America.

In 2017, when Allie was just entering the world of politics, Charlie Kirk — a rising star in the conservative movement — invited her to speak at Turning Point USA’s second annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

Fast-forward two years later, and Allie was asked to help plan and host the event. Even though she was due with her baby around the same time the summit would take place, she agreed to help because it was Charlie who was asking.

“I knew that if Charlie was leading it, then no matter what, that it was worth doing,” she says with tears in her eyes.

“I am one of thousands of people who can say that Charlie believed in me. He platformed me. He helped shape me long before I had done anything impressive,” she says.

Unlike most people in politics, who are kind only if it gets them something in return, Charlie was genuinely kind — and not just to the people he liked and knew well. His graciousness extended to those who hated him and called him their enemy — and was perhaps even greater.

“I almost wrote that Charlie treated everyone the same … [but] I realized that is not true. He was loving toward his friends, but he went out of his way to show even more grace to the people that considered themselves his enemies,” says Allie.

In 2022, Allie recalls doing a joint speaking engagement with Charlie at Auburn University. One hostile student stormed up to the mic and accused Charlie of being racist for calling out crime and fatherlessness in the black community.

“And he responded to her — I remember I got to watch this up close in true Charlie fashion — with precision, with boldness, but most of all with gentleness,” says Allie.

“For 13 years, Charlie worked with all kinds of people — from high school students, college volunteers, thousands of employees to the most powerful people in media and government. And I have not met one person who has ever had anything negative to say about Charlie Kirk,” she continues.

The magic of Charlie lay not in his brilliance, his leadership qualities, or his visionary mindset — although these qualities were certainly profound in him — but “because very simply, he was a good friend.”

Charlie embodied what it means to “share the arrows,” says Allie.

“If someone said something true, and they were taking flak for it, no matter their political affiliation, Charlie was the first in their inbox cheering them on,” she says.

“If you are a college student who is getting bullied for saying something true in class, Charlie would find a way. He would exhaust his network to find a way to reach you and to encourage you. If you were a politician running for office and you were getting raked over the coals, Charlie would go to bat for you.”

As an example, Allie points to her joint segment with Charlie on Fox News last month. They talked about the rise in Christian music, highlighting the work of Forrest Frank, who’s become a transformative voice in contemporary Christian culture.

Frank reposted their segment to his social media page and was hit with furious backlash from people who maligned Allie and Charlie — “but especially Charlie.”

“So what did Charlie do? He reached out to Forrest, not to defend himself, but just to encourage him — to tell Forrest that he’s doing a great job and that he’s cheering him on,” says Allie.

She also recalls the memory of speaking with Charlie at a megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona.

“We got to do what Charlie really loved more than debates, more than campaigning, and that was [defending] the faith. His knowledge of the Bible, his relentless passion for truth just absolutely overflowed into everything,” says Allie.

“I know if I could have texted Charlie this morning and asked him, ‘Hey, Charlie, I’ve got this really tough subject to talk about today, what do you think about it?’ … I know exactly what he’d tell me,” she says. “He would just have said, ‘Jesus — that’s it. Just point them to Jesus.”

To hear Allie’s full tribute, watch the video above.

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I’ve only felt this weight once before. It was 2001, just as my radio show was about to begin. The World Trade Center fell, and I was called to speak immediately. I spent the day and night by my bedside, praying for words that could meet the moment.

Yesterday, I found myself in the same position. September 11, 2025. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. A friend. A warrior for truth.

Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins.

Moments like this make words feel inadequate. Yet sometimes, words from another time speak directly to our own. In 1947, Dylan Thomas, watching his father slip toward death, penned lines that now resonate far beyond his own grief:

Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Thomas was pleading for his father to resist the impending darkness of death. But those words have become a mandate for all of us: Do not surrender. Do not bow to shadows. Even when the battle feels unwinnable.

Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking unpopular truths. He knew the fury of those who sought to silence him. And yet he pressed on. In his life, he embodied a defiance rooted not in anger, but in principle.

Picking up his torch

Washington, Jefferson, Adams — our history was started by men who raged against an empire, knowing the gallows might await. Lincoln raged against slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. raged against segregation. Every generation faces a call to resist surrender.

It is our turn. Charlie’s violent death feels like a knockout punch. Yet if his life meant anything, it means this: Silence in the face of darkness is not an option.

He did not go gently. He spoke. He challenged. He stood. And now, the mantle falls to us. To me. To you. To every American.

We cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage — not with hatred, not with vengeance, but with courage. Rage against lies, against apathy, against the despair that tells us to do nothing. Because there is always something you can do.

Even small acts — defiance, faith, kindness — are light in the darkness. Reaching out to those who mourn. Speaking truth in a world drowning in deceit. These are the flames that hold back the night. Charlie carried that torch. He laid it down yesterday. It is ours to pick up.

The light may dim, but it always does before dawn. Commit today: I will not sleep as freedom fades. I will not retreat as darkness encroaches. I will not be silent as evil forces claim dominion. I have no king but Christ. And I know whom I serve, as did Charlie.

Two turning points, decades apart

On Wednesday, the world changed again. Two tragedies, separated by decades, bound by the same question: Who are we? Is this worth saving? What kind of people will we choose to be?

Imagine a world where more of us choose to be peacemakers. Not passive, not silent, but builders of bridges where others erect walls. Respect and listening transform even the bitterest of foes. Charlie Kirk embodied this principle.

He did not strike the weak; he challenged the powerful. He reached across divides of politics, culture, and faith. He changed hearts. He sparked healing. And healing is what our nation needs.

At the center of all this is one truth: Every person is a child of God, deserving of dignity. Change will not happen in Washington or on social media. It begins at home, where loneliness and isolation threaten our souls. Family is the antidote. Imperfect, yes — but still the strongest source of stability and meaning.

RELATED: Trump to award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom: ‘A giant of his generation’

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Forgiveness, fidelity, faithfulness, and honor are not dusty words. They are the foundation of civilization. Strong families produce strong citizens. And today, Charlie’s family mourns. They must become our family too. We must stand as guardians of his legacy, shining examples of the courage he lived by.

A time for courage

I knew Charlie. I know how he would want us to respond: Multiply his courage. Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins. Out of darkness, great and glorious things will sprout — but we must be worthy of them.

Charlie Kirk lived defiantly. He stood in truth. He changed the world. And now, his torch is in our hands. Rage, not in violence, but in unwavering pursuit of truth and goodness. Rage against the dying of the light.

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