ARLINGTON, Texas — The family of a man beaten to death in an apartment complex parking lot in Arlington marked what would have been his 51st birthday Wednesday with a plea for help to find his killers.
Arlington Police found Frank Kwasnica III beaten unrecognizably in the parking lot of the Waterdance apartments early Friday morning. He died at a hospital and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner identified him days later.
Kwasnica's family said he worked the second shift at Sam's Club and gave a coworker a ride home Thursday night. They knew something was wrong when he didn't call to check in on his thirteen-month-old grandchild or two adult daughters the next morning.
"They’re in horrible shape," said the girls' grandmother, Debra Radley. "We're beside ourselves, we just don't understand."
The family said they had no idea who would attack Kwasnica so brutally.
His daughters, Siarra and Tabitha, said they found his 2003 blue Mustang at a second apartment complex four miles away on Saturday morning. They said there was a phone and blood inside the car, but whoever moved it did not take their father's debit card.
"It doesn’t make sense. I mean nothing makes sense about this whole situation," Radley said.
Police are trying to piece together what happened too. Arlington Police Spokesperson Tim Ciesco said detectives don't have a lot to go on, nor a solid suspect description.
"Only that we believe it was three males," he said. "That's really the best that we have, that we can put out at this point."
He said police believe the three suspects pulled up in two vehicles next to Kwasnica in the parking lot, started yelling at him, and then chased him. Then the three men beat him with two large objects.
"The injuries were so severe it was hard for anybody to figure out who he was," Ciesco said.
He asked anyone with information on the case to call Detective Robinson at (817) 459-5935 or Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County at (817) 469-8477. People wanting to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers.
Kwasnica's family hopes to get answers too.
"I know there’s a lot of evil out here in this world," Radley said. "At the very end, he was still helping people. And now people need to help us to bring whoever done this to him to justice."