Wednesday morning, April 19th, around 9:04 a.m. Hastings Police received a call for a man hanging from a tree at Roadside Park in Hastings. Within a minute, an officer responded on the radio correcting the report stating there was a man hanging from the playground equipment. The scene was quickly secured and tarped and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner was called to process the scene. The scene was cleared just before 11:00 a.m. with no threats to the general public.

After the responding officer made the call at 9:05 a.m. regarding a man hanging from the playground equipment, several officers were on the scene and had the area tarped off from the general public until the medical examiner could arrive. The medical examiner arrived sometime around 10:15 a.m. and it took about 45 minutes to process the scene.

Deputy Chief Bryan Schowalter was supervising the scene and could only confirm that it was an active death investigation and there was no known or expected threat to the public. Later, the City of Hasting released a statement from Police Chief David Wilske regarding the incident.

The Hastings Police Department received a call this morning of a medical emergency at Roadside Park.  Officers and medics arrived and found no signs of life on a male in his 40s.  The body was taken by the Hennepin County Medical Center and identification is pending notification to next of kin.  This is an active investigation within the Hastings Police Department, and there are no safety concerns for the community related to this incident or at Roadside Park.

The scene was cleared by 11:00 a.m. and no new information has been made available.