{"id":375674,"date":"2026-07-16T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375674\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:07:55","slug":"two-dead-after-kayak-capsizes-in-private-fort-worth-pond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375674\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after kayak capsizes in private Fort Worth pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two men, aged approximately 60 and 20, died Wednesday morning after their kayak overturned in a private pond in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders recovered both victims from the water in the 3100 block of Cooks Lane, but life-saving efforts at the scene were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have not yet determined what caused the kayak to capsize, and the victims&#8217; identities are being withheld pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/99073cdf8845001fe809e8e6605b9ad5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medical personnel attempted life-saving measures, but both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have not yet determined what caused the kayak to capsize.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/82e8884af5d96a5d0865685e841b1cec.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Two men, aged approximately 60 and 20, died Wednesday morning after their kayak overturned in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9590,116,118,117,2238,42818],"class_list":["post-375674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-emergency-personnel","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-kayak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375674","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=375674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}