<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The homicide squad is investigating a mystery in a Bedfordale car park, in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/perth" rel="" target="" title="Perth"><span>Perth</span></a><span>'s southern suburbs.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The family of 53-year-old grandfather Elmars Kalejs have spoken out and are desperate for answers after he suffered serious head injuries that months later claimed his life.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Some of Kalejs final moments of normality were caught on CCTV, but what happened to him just hours later remains a mystery.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/beaumont-children-new-information-emerges-decades-after-disappearance-of-beaumont-children/aa70bbf9-4e73-424d-9be5-443383c07653"><strong><span>New information emerges decades after disappearance of Beaumont children</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 53-year-old had been sleeping in his car at the Settlers Common Environmental Centre in Bedfordale.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On April 18 about 12.30pm he was found lying injured next to his silver Holden Commodore.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital with bleeding on the brain, broken ribs and a collapsed lung.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bedfordale-death-wa-family-plead-for-information-after-grandfathers-mystery-death/5c519782-78a6-4670-a793-61f3dbf9bc52" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He stayed there for more than 60 days, dying from his injuries on June 24.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/nobody-was-supposed-to-die-key-witness-opens-up-about-deadly-adelaide-shooting/bb530f4d-addd-4aa5-8ca6-9be2c2de4bcb"><strong><span>'Nobody was supposed to die': Key witness opens up about deadly Adelaide shooting</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He was able to start talking again, and then, unfortunately, he went downhill and we lost him," daughter Courtney Mallard said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We just want to know what happened, and put our mind to rest."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police are also putting out the call for more information.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Elmars wasn't in the state where he could tell us what happened, hence why we're still here now trying to figure that out," Detective Senior Sergeant Jarrod Manson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The homicide squad has been called in, trying to piece together the 24 hours before the grandfather was discovered.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>CCTV from a Maddington shopping centre showed the clothes he was wearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're still unsure of how these injuries have occurred. It may be from a vehicle and it may be from an assault, and that's what we're here trying to figure out," Manson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Flyers of information will be put into food hampers and handed out to homeless people in the area in the hopes someone knows something.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A mobile police unit has also set up at the old Armadale courthouse until tomorrow.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Please just help if if you know anything," Mallard said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's OK, we forgive anyone who's done it, please just come forward. We just need closure as a family."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Anyone with further information has been urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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