Red Deer RCMP don’t believe a man, whose body was found Thursday morning in Coronation Park, died under suspicious circumstances.
A citizen reported seeing a deceased man on an embankment by the north bridge at 8:25 a.m.
Police contained the area for a few hours while members of the RCMP forensic identification section conducted their investigation.
By about noon, police had cleared the scene and the body was being traken to Calgary for an autopsy to be conducted by the chief medical examiner’s office, which has taken over the investigation.
The date for the autopsy has not been set yet.
Red Deer RCMP were working to notify the deceased man’s next of kin.