{"id":379918,"date":"2026-07-20T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379918\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:05:33","slug":"5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-fort-bend-county-lake-following-amber-alert-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379918\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old boy found dead in Fort Bend County lake following Amber Alert \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Pictured is the seal for the Fort Bend County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

A 5-year-old boy was found dead early Monday morning in a lake near his home after being reported missing the day before, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n

In a 4 a.m. statement on social media<\/a>, the sheriff’s office said investigators had found no signs of foul play in the death of Edward Hall. He was the subject of an Amber Alert sent Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said Hall was reported missing after having last been seen Sunday afternoon in the 3800 block of Ryans Rock Court in Katy, a suburb west of Houston. Hall’s body was recovered at approximately 1:45 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n

“The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office extends its sincere gratitude to Texas EquuSearch Search & Recovery for its invaluable assistance and partnership throughout the search efforts,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Edward’s family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office Pictured is the seal for the Fort Bend County Sheriff\u2019s Office. A 5-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22737,126741,3367,441,70550,56,58,57,66,223],"class_list":["post-379918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-amber-alert","tag-city-of-katy","tag-fort-bend","tag-fort-bend-county","tag-fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918","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=379918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}