{"id":308325,"date":"2026-05-25T20:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:40:13","slug":"search-for-child-missing-off-southeast-texas-beach-now-a-recovery-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308325\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for child missing off Southeast Texas beach now a recovery operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRAZORIA COUNTY \u2014 A young child is missing after he was washed away by a large wave at Surfside Beach in Brazoria County, and it&#8217;s turned from a search and rescue into a recovery operation.<\/p>\n<p>Surfside Beach Chief of Police Philip Hester said the search for 10-year-old Joshua Lahai started minutes after he went underwater at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Lahai was at the beach with his youth football team, playing in the water, when he was washed away by a big wave. The boy&#8217;s family saw it happen, according to EquuSearch.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Miller with EquuSearch said their search began at 8:30 p.m. and continued throughout the night. It resumed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Police said DPS, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the Brazoria County Sheriff&#8217;s Office are helping in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRAZORIA COUNTY \u2014 A young child is missing after he was washed away by a large wave at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308325","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=308325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}