{"id":371769,"date":"2026-07-13T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:07:09","slug":"body-of-62-year-old-swimmer-recovered-from-benbrook-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371769\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of 62-year-old swimmer recovered from Benbrook Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Benbrook Lake 103.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"An archive photo of Benbrook Lake\" alt=\"An archive photo of Benbrook Lake\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        An archive photo of Benbrook Lake<\/p>\n<p>                Ben Noey Jr.<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>The body of a 62-year-old Fort Worth man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article316483576.html\">was recovered from Benbrook Lake<\/a> on Monday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Game Wardens and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recovered the man\u2019s body about 9:30 a.m. He was identified as Freddy Ferrer Bracamonte, officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Game Wardens responded to the report of a possible water fatality about 6 p.m. on Sunday after witnesses reported that a man went underwater in a designated swimming area near Mustang Park and did not resurface, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The search was suspended on Sunday night about 9:30 p.m. and resumed Monday morning with assistance from Tarrant County firefighters and Fort Worth Fire Department and Dive Team, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with Mr. Ferrer\u2019s family and friends during this difficult time,\u201d Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783984029_501_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An archive photo of Benbrook Lake Ben Noey Jr. Star-Telegram The body of a 62-year-old Fort Worth man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-371769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371769","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=371769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}