The man found hanging from a tree in an Aurora park on Friday, June 27, was a 45-year-old homeless resident from Cambodia named Mom Krouch, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office and a friend of his.
Aurora residents shared shock and trauma on social media as they recounted seeing a man hanging in Del Mar Park in the heart of town. The Aurora Police Department posted on X on Friday afternoon that it was investigating the incident as “an apparent suicide” and that “there are no indications of foul play or that anything criminal occurred and there are no larger community concerns.”
A lack of information over the weekend worried people who had witnessed or heard about the incident. Video circulated on TikTok showing Krouch’s body hanging from a tree with APD cars at the scene. Others took to Facebook and Reddit to try to understand what happened…