{"id":377850,"date":"2026-07-18T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:32:28","slug":"body-of-27-year-old-swimmer-recovered-from-joe-pool-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377850\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of 27-year-old swimmer recovered from Joe Pool Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784143389_428_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The body of a 27-year-old man was recovered from Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie on Thursday, July 16, officials say.\" alt=\"The body of a 27-year-old man was recovered from Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie on Thursday, July 16, officials say.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The body of a 27-year-old man was recovered from Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie on Thursday, July 16, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old man died in an apparent drowning Thursday while swimming in Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prairie Fire Department responded to the lake about 7:20 p.m., the agency <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/grandprairiefire\/posts\/pfbid0v6DcvrLkNLX4CrQAJgFCZ8fepsnFDE2Uqv8X6Tm5zeqtBPx7rRjX8PtBmBcD2L6Nl\">said in a news release<\/a>. The Public Safety Dive Team conducted a search and recovered the body.<\/p>\n<p>The man wasn\u2019t wearing a life vest, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the lake season continues, GPFD strongly encourages the public to wear a life vest or other appropriate personal flotation device while near or in the water,\u201d fire officials said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>The man was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/mepi\/\">identified as Akshath Singh<\/a> on the Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s website. His official manner of death hasn\u2019t been listed yet.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" 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\/1784051299_460_Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a 27-year-old man was recovered from Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie on Thursday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-377850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377850","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=377850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}