{"id":374311,"date":"2026-07-15T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:05:11","slug":"two-dead-after-kayak-capsizes-in-private-fort-worth-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374311\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after kayak capsizes in private Fort Worth pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/071526-sky-4-wed-1200-kdfweme002_12_00_25_mpg_00.25.19.38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Two people were found dead Wednesday morning after a kayak overturned in a pond on a private property in Fort Worth, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Two dead in Fort Worth pond <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police and medical personnel were dispatched to a water emergency call at 11:20 a.m. in the 3100 block of Cooks Lane, which is just north of Hwy. 180 between Fort Worth and Arlington, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/071526-sky-4-wed-1200-kdfweme002_12_00_25_mpg_00.26.47.40.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders arrived at the scene to find an overturned kayak in the private pond. Emergency personnel recovered two male victims; one was a man about 60 years old, the other was about 20 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Medical personnel attempted life-saving measures, but both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators have not yet determined what caused the kayak to capsize.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/071526-sky-4-wed-1200-kdfweme002_12_00_25_mpg_00.28.50.26.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;At this time, there are no clear factors for the cause of the accident,&#8221; the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The identities of the two victims are being withheld pending formal identification and notification of next of kin by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Two people were found dead Wednesday morning after a kayak overturned in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-374311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374311","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=374311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}