{"id":438059,"date":"2026-09-16T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:38:11","slug":"74-year-old-man-who-went-missing-after-drone-crashed-in-wooded-area-found-dead-harris-county-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438059\/","title":{"rendered":"74-year-old man who went missing after drone crashed in wooded area found dead, Harris County sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789591091_17_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, September 16, 2026 7:24PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC13 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 74-year-old man was found dead after a search of the Katy area on Wednesday afternoon, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Just before 1 p.m., Gonzalez shared that crews were conducting a search for a man who went into a wooded area on Tuesday. According to HCSO, two men were reportedly operating a drone, when it crashed in the wooded area in the 11100 block of Katy Hockley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the 74-year-old went in to find a missing part of the drone but never returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A search got underway on Tuesday and resumed Wednesday, but a little after 2 p.m., Gonzalez shared the man had been found dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our detectives are on scene. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock Wednesday, September 16, 2026 7:24PM Follow ABC13 on Google&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[151795,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-438059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-151795","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438059","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=438059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}