HASTINGS  — A Burnsville man who killed his infant son has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.

Michael Herkal, 33, admitted slapping and violently shaking the 13-day-old baby after the child wouldn’t stop crying.

Police responded to a report of an infant who wasn’t breathing on Aug. 12, 2018. They found the baby without a pulse and turning purple.

The infant was hospitalized with a skull fracture and bleeding on his brain. He died two days later.