{"id":257550,"date":"2026-06-06T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:20:45","slug":"news-12-bronx-18-year-old-missing-bronx-student-found-dead-in-breezy-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257550\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 18 Year Old Missing Bronx Student Found Dead In Breezy Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An 18\u2011year\u2011old Bronx student who went missing while swimming off Rockaway Beach last month was found dead nearly two weeks later in Breezy Point, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim was identified as Brandon Figueroa, an 18\u2011year\u2011old senior at the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the initial 911 call came in around 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, reporting a drowning near Beach 73rd Street and Shore Front Parkway in Queens. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Responding officers searched the area but were unable to locate a victim.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Saturday, May 30, police were called to Rockaway Point Boulevard and Beach 222nd St in Breezy Point, where officers discovered an unconscious and unresponsive male along the shoreline. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD\u2019s Emergency Service Unit removed him from the water, and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Figueroa&#8217;s mother wrote on <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-brandon-figueroas-memorial?attribution_id=4cd935db-b535-4ea6-a19f-6818a1192de5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> that her son\u2019s body had been recovered.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Figueroa had been missing since May 19, when he disappeared while swimming off Rockaway Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18\u2011year\u2011old Bronx student who went missing while swimming off Rockaway Beach last month was found dead nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-257550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}