3 MEXICANS ARRESTED: WHITE Arlington man beaten to death by three people in apartment parking lot

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Arlington man beaten to death by three people in apartment parking lot

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.

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Arlington man beaten to death by three people in apartment parking lot
By FOX 4 Staff
Published January 23, 2024 11:13AM
Updated 9:25PM
Arlington
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Arlington man beaten to death in parking lot

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.

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.

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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.

 

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Three suspects arrested, charged for man's death at Arlington apartment complex, police say

Police and family said 51-year-old Frank Kwasnica III was beaten in the complex parking lot on Jan. 19.

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3 MEXICANS ARRESTED

Updated: 12:04 PM CST February 1, 2024

ARLINGTON, Texas — Three suspects have been arrested and charged with capital murder for the death of a man who was beaten severely in Arlington, police said.

In a press release on Thursday, police said 20-year-old Norlan Gomez-Torres, 22-year-old Brayan Amador Vasquez, and 29-year-old Jared Amador Vasquez were arrested on Wednesday.



All three were charged for the death of 51-year-old Frank Kwasnica III. Police said warrants were obtained for their arrests and they were booked into the Arlington City Jail.

According to officials and Kwasnica's family, Kwansica was beaten in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Jan. 19 after giving a coworker a ride home. Police were called to the complex in the 2200 block of Blue Water Drive just before 12:30 a.m. where they said they found Kwasnica severely beaten.

In the Thursday press release, police said a witness had cellphone video of the incident that showed two vehicles near the victim and the suspects. The vehicles weren't at the scene when police arrived, so they believed the suspects took both vehicles.

One of the vehicles, later identified as Kwasnica's blue Ford Mustang, was found the next day about four miles away from the crime scene. Police said they took the vehicle from the scene to dump when they found items inside that belonged to Gomez-Torres.

According to Torres' arrest warrant, the items were his cellphone and a bloody shoe.

In all of the suspects' retracted warrants, officials said they connected Brayan Vasquez as another suspect in the case. Documents said he was seen running up to his apartment, running back down, then leaving in the other vehicle that left the scene before officers arrived.

Vasquez's warrant said management entered the apartment and found a shirt with what appeared to be blood.

The warrant for Jared Vasquez said Brayan was arrested out of a vehicle that Jared was driving. According to the documents, Jared came to the Arlington police station and identified himself as Brayan's brother.

Documents said Brayan confessed to being involved in the incident and name Jared as the third suspect.

Jared allegedly admitted to being there during the incident and claimed he tried to break up the fight between everyone. He then admitted to being involved after he was shown video of the incident, according to his warrant.