{"id":380332,"date":"2026-07-21T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:57:12","slug":"man-drowns-after-trying-to-cross-milam-county-pond-on-horseback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380332\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drowns after trying to cross Milam County pond on horseback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAM COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 31-year-old man drowned over the weekend after trying to cross a pond near Rockdale on horseback, according to the Milam County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office responded around 5:45 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of County Road 303 for a report of a possible drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife game wardens, Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department and dive teams from Milam and Williamson counties also responded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-swat-team-responding-to-incident-in-northeast-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | APD SWAT team responding to incident in Northeast Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders found that Andrew Jenkins, 31, had gone underwater in a pond on the property and not resurfaced, authorities said. Divers recovered his body around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined Jenkins had been attempting to cross the pond on horseback when he and the horse became separated and he went under, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Foul play is not suspected based on information available so far. An autopsy has been ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAM COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 31-year-old man drowned over the weekend after trying to cross a pond near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-380332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380332","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=380332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}