Arlington man beaten to death by three people in apartment parking lot
ARLINGTON, Texas - Arlington police are looking for a group of people who beat a 51-year-old man to death in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
Police do not have a motive behind the killing, but the victim's family says he was just trying to drive a friend home from work when the attack happened.
Just after midnight on Friday, Jan. 19, the Arlington Police Department responded to reports of a fight at the Waterdance Apartments on Blue Water Drive.
Officers found 51-year-old Frank Kwasnica III in the parking lot unresponsive with blunt force trauma to his head. He later died at the hospital.
Kwasnica's daughter told FOX 4 that her father drove to the apartments that night to drop off a coworker.
Arlington police say they believe two vehicles pulled up next to him in the parking lot. Three people got out and started yelling at Kwasnica. They chased him and began hitting him with two large objects.
Kwasnica's daughter says she knew something was wrong when her dad didn’t come home after work and didn’t show up for work the next day.
Kwasnica lived in a Grand Prairie neighborhood about 20 minutes from the apartment complex.
A neighbor who spoke with us didn't want to show his face or use his name since the killers are still on the loose. He says he regularly talked with Kwasnica and will be missed.
"He was friends with everybody," they said.
Kwasnica's family shared a statement Tuesday saying, "My daddy Frank was one of a kind. The best daddy anybody could ever ask for… He didn't deserve this... We loved him dearly."
Kwasnica would have been 52 years old on Wednesday.
Arlington police say they don’t know a motive for the attack, including whether the killers were trying to rob Kwasnica, and they don't know if he knew any of his attackers.
Police say they do not have detailed descriptions of the suspects or the vehicles they were in.
No arrests have been made at this time.