Friends and family of a Winnipeg man who died Monday after a beating last week are struggling to come to terms with his death.
Erin Pawlowski, 35, never regained consciousness after a severe beating Thursday night at Selkirk Avenue and Powers Street in the city's North End neighbourhood.
Police are looking for three men in their 20s who apparently set upon Pawlowski after he got off a transit bus.
He had just finished an evening shift at a manufacturing plant in the East Kildonan area.
'They should take pictures … and put them in the paper. Let them see what they've done, because it was terrible.'
—Dorothy Pawlowski
Sitting at a small table in her North End home, Dorothy Pawlowski was still coming to terms with the thought that she'll never see her son again.
"He said, 'Goodbye.' I said, 'Goodbye, have fun,' " she said, recalling the last words they exchanged.
"Police came, they … took me to the hospital and that was that," she said. "They should take pictures there from the hospital and put them in the paper. Let them see what they've done, because it was terrible.
"I always felt sorry before for families where things happen like that," she said. "But I never thought it would happen to me."
Roger Desgarlais is mourning the loss of his closest friend; he and Pawlowski had been friends since they met in junior high school more than 20 years ago.
"We did everything together. We're like two peas in a pod, that's the best I can explain it," he said. "We have the same interests.
We both collected comic books. We had plans to see Spiderman, coming out in May — we'll still see it in his memory."
Pawlowski's organs were donated after his death.
His mother said knowing her son is helping others helps to ease her pain.
But she won't rest easy until the people who took her son's life are found and convicted.
"Catch these guys.
They know what they did and they have to live with it," she said. "They get what they deserve sometimes."
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