Peel Regional Police are investigating after a dead body was found in a Mississauga park Tuesday morning.

The grisly discovery was made by a passerby around 8:15 a.m. in a park in the area of Sheridan Park and Homelands drives, near Sheridan Centre mall.

Peel Const. Bancroft Wright said it’s the body of a 27-year-old Mississauga man and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers spent hours in the park and surrounding streets.