Fred William Pohnka Jr, 68, was found dead in his Little Rock home on the 1200 block of Jackson Street on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, after he failed to report for his shift as a security guard at a local Regions Bank. Supervisors who could not reach him went to his residence and contacted police when knocks went unanswered. Officers entered and found the house ransacked and Pohnka’s body in the kitchen. The Arkansas State Crime Lab determined he had been shot and beaten. Investigators reported no signs of forced entry, which led them to consider that he may have known his attacker or attackers. Neighbors remembered him as a friendly, well-known member of the community.

The Little Rock Police Department identified this as the city’s 16th homicide of 2015 and made arrests in the case within a week. Two people arrested first were 24-year-old Malcolm Jamel Cooksey and 27-year-old Alexandria Martin; a few days later, 27-year-old Calvin Thornton Jr. was taken into custody. All three were charged with capital murder in connection with the robbery and violent death of Fred Pohnka Jr.

Does anyone have additional information about Pohnka’s life, movements that week, or other details that could help clarify what happened?