{"id":156275,"date":"2026-02-08T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:45:10","slug":"china-spring-mother-asks-community-for-help-locating-son-missing-in-fort-worth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156275\/","title":{"rendered":"China Spring mother asks community for help locating son missing in Fort Worth area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> A China Spring mother is asking the community for help locating her son who is missing in the Fort Worth area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Elijah Lee, 22, of White Settlement, Texas, is believed to have gone missing sometime between Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Elijah Lee\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ZS7MDLLXQZA7THTVKYWMWUM3I4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"980\" \/>Elijah Lee(KWTX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police are investigating his disappearance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His mother, Gwen Lee, of China Spring, says Elijah is not answering his phone and his apartment was found open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gwen Lee said they found a concerning note inside her son\u2019s apartment indicating he might be a danger to himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cPlease pray that he is okay. That he did not hurt himself. There were other things that were in his apartment that were very concerning,\u201d Gwen Lee said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Elijah Lee is driving a white, 2019 Toyota RAV 4. His family is searching a lake area that Elijah Lee, an avid hiker, googled last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you see him or have information about his whereabouts, call White Settlement Police at (817) 246-4973.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A China Spring mother is asking the community for help locating her son who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64377,64375,116,118,117,64376,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-156275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-china-spring-mother-gwen-lee-searching-for-lost-son","9":"tag-elijah-lee","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-missing-in-white-settlement","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}