Randy P. Kazlauskas, Jr., 41, a man from Crown Point, Indiana, had built an ordinary, hardworking life—he finished high school at Bloom Trail and had recently launched his own home remodeling business, I.N.C. Remodeling LTD. People close to him remembered him in family roles first: a loving son and husband, woven into the daily routines and relationships that make a home feel steady.
On the night of November 5, 2021, that steadiness shattered in Gary’s Glen Park area.
Police were dispatched to a residence after a report of a burglary, and an officer arriving around 10:45 p.m. in the 4400 block of Washington Street saw a vehicle speed away as he pulled up. Inside the scene that followed, Kazlauskas was found dead and pronounced at the location, turning what began as a call about a break-in into the opening moments of a homicide investigation.
The details released publicly left a stark impression: a late-night emergency call, a neighborhood street, and a car vanishing into the dark at the exact moment police arrived—an image that investigators treated as a potentially important clue. Detectives with the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit appealed for the public’s help and provided phone lines for information and anonymous tips, underscoring that the case still depended on someone coming forward with what they saw or heard.
In the days after his death, grief quickly turned practical for the people he left behind. A fundraising appeal described him as the longtime partner/fiancé of Lisa Nowakowski and the father of their three children, and it framed his death plainly as a homicide that was still unsolved—an absence of answers layered on top of the sudden loss.
Across the online sources available, no suspect is publicly identified by name, and no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction is described in connection with Kazlauskas’s killing. What remains in public view is the same haunting thread investigators pointed to early on: an unknown person or people leaving the area in a speeding vehicle, and a family waiting for the moment when that lead finally becomes something solid enough to name.
