{"id":372122,"date":"2026-07-14T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:44:15","slug":"body-discovered-floating-in-houstons-greens-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372122\/","title":{"rendered":"Body discovered floating in Houston&#8217;s Greens Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials recovered a body from Greens Bayou in east Houston on Monday after firefighters responded to reports of a person in the water.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HFD units arrived on scene and deployed a rescue boat into the bayou to confirm that there was a deceased person in the bayou,&#8221; the department said. &#8220;HFD confirmed that there was a deceased individual in the bayou.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was then turned over to the Houston Police Department to recover the body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chron has reached out to the Houston Police Department for additional information and will update this story as more details become available.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials recovered a body from Greens Bayou in east Houston on Monday after firefighters responded to reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-372122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372122","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=372122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}