{"id":197044,"date":"2026-03-09T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:57:10","slug":"body-recovered-after-houston-teen-goes-missing-in-water-near-surfside-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197044\/","title":{"rendered":"Body recovered after Houston teen goes missing in water near Surfside Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities recover a body near Surfside Beach after a Houston teenager went missing, with identification pending from the Galveston County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas \u2014 Authorities say a body has been recovered after a Houston teenager went missing in the water near Surfside Beach on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was reported missing Friday afternoon after entering the water off the Brazoria County beach.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies joined the search effort over the weekend, including the United States Coast Guard, as crews worked to locate the missing swimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Hester, chief of the Surfside Beach Police Department, told KHOU 11 that a body has now been recovered in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they are still waiting for the Galveston County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office to officially identify the body.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released the teen\u2019s name. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/body-recovered-surfside-beach-missing\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities recover a body near Surfside Beach after a Houston teenager went missing, with identification pending from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-197044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197044","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=197044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}