UPDATED: Hastings Police Asking for Public’s Help Finding Mark Morris
Published: November 23, 2025. | Last Updated: November 24, 2025, at 7:40 PM.
MISSING PERSON ALERT: The Hastings Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating 31-year-old Mark Morris. He was reported missing on Friday, November 21, 2025, and is part of the extensive area search underway in the Hastings, Minnesota, area over the weekend and today.
Mark Morris, age 31, is 5 feet, 1 inch tall, weighs 135 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. Morris left his home on Nov. 21 around 2:38 a.m. but did not arrive at his place of work. He was wearing a dark blue Twins zip-up sweatshirt and dark pants. His vehicle was found unoccupied in downtown Hastings. If you have information on Mark Morris’ whereabouts, call the Hastings Police Department at 651-480-2300 or call 911.
The BCA is sharing this alert on behalf of the listed law enforcement agency. The BCA is not the investigating agency. Please direct all tips, questions, or information to the Hastings Police Department.
ORIGINAL STORY - HASTINGS, MINNESOTA - Multiple fire and police departments continued an extensive search Sunday along both sides of the Mississippi River near the Hastings Lock and Dam and Jaycee Park, in connection with a missing-person case first reported on Friday, November 21, 2025.
Emergency activity began shortly before 11:45 a.m. Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the boat launch off of Lock and Dam Road. Crews are reported to be searching both riverbanks from the dam southward, utilizing boats, drones, shoreline teams, and grid-search crews. Agencies responding included Hastings Police and Dakota County Special Operations Teams (SOT) from Rosemount Fire, Miesville Fire, Eagan Fire, Prescott Fire, and the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office
Law Enforcement Searching For a Missing Person
Hastings Police have confirmed that they are looking for a missing person reported on Friday, November 21, 2025.
According to information shared with us, the missing person was reportedly last seen leaving for work around 2:40 a.m. on Friday, November 21. It was said they were driving a silver 2009 Kia Spectra and wearing a blue Minnesota Twins sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, and black sneakers when they left home. Hastings Police have confirmed they found their vehicle in the City of Hastings historic downtown; however, they did not see the missing person with it.
Search Efforts Continue Across a Wide Area
In a statement shared with the Hastings Journal and directly with Limitless Media, Hastings Police Chief David Wilske confirmed that the activity at Jaycee Park and the Lock and Dam area is tied to a missing-person case they received on Friday. The Police Chief said search teams did a comprehensive grid search on Sunday, sweeping areas from federal land west of the dam to locations downstream east of the marina, and both sides of the river. The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office was doing both a river search by boat and an aerial search by drone technology. The search on Sunday went until sunset.
Due to hunting activity in the region, crews temporarily paused their search efforts in Gores Pool #3 on Sunday for safety reasons, according to the Police Chief, as reported by the Hastings Journal. The Police Chief confirmed they spoke with the MnDNR about speaking with hunters and members of the public in that area regarding being alert and to call 911 or the Hastings Police Department if they observe anything unusual or locate items that may assist investigators.
The Police Chief told Limitless Media this morning that crews will be searching the area again today, Monday, November 24, 2025.
This remains a developing situation. Limitless Media News will continue to provide updates as soon as additional verified information becomes available.
Rough map of the location where the missing person search is ongoing.
Written By: Will Wight
Photos from the scene Provided By Hastings Journal
