Forensics experts comb crime scene after man killed in Royal Reserve car park in Massey

A homicide investigation has continued through the night following the killing of a man at Royal Reserve on Beauchamp Drive. Photo / Hayden Woodward

Police in hazmat suits continued to comb a park in West Auckland overnight, 24 hours after a man was found dead in the car park.

The man was reported unresponsive just after midnight on Monday, and was pronounced dead where he was found, in the car park at Royal Reserve in Massey.

Police have opened a homicide investigation and charged a 26-year-old man with murder. He appeared in court on Monday.

Forensics in coveralls were carefully walking through the car park and conducting a scene examination using Luminol at Royal Reserve overnight. Photo / Hayden Woodward

Detectives, photographers and ESR forensic scientists remained at the park on Beauchamp Drive overnight.

Six forensic experts in coveralls could be seen carefully walking through the car park and conducting a scene examination using Luminol, which is used to detect traces of blood.

Luminol being used at the crime scene at the Royal Reserve car park in Massey overnight. Photo / Hayden Woodward

Officers are still maintaining cordons around the carpark.

A police scene guard was also present at nearby Reverie Place, where an arrest was made early on Monday not long after the victim was first found at the reserve.

A police vehicle was parked in the Reverie Pl driveway, and a Waitemata CIB trailer was parked outside the house.

Police have not yet released the identity of the victim.

Police at an address on Reverie Place early on Monday morning not long after a man was found dead at the nearby Royal Reserve in Massey.