Officials recovered a body from Greens Bayou in east Houston on Monday after firefighters responded to reports of a person in the water.
The Houston Fire Department was dispatched around 11:19 a.m. to the 12905 block of Industrial Road, where someone reported seeing a body in Greens Bayou, according to a department news release.
Firefighters launched a rescue boat to investigate and confirmed that the person in the water was dead, according to a press release from the fire department.
“HFD units arrived on scene and deployed a rescue boat into the bayou to confirm that there was a deceased person in the bayou,” the department said. “HFD confirmed that there was a deceased individual in the bayou.”
The investigation was then turned over to the Houston Police Department to recover the body.
Chron has reached out to the Houston Police Department for additional information and will update this story as more details become available.
This story is developing.