{"id":469911,"date":"2026-10-18T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469911\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:04:38","slug":"body-found-near-shore-of-lady-bird-lake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469911\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near shore of Lady Bird Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A body was found near the shore of Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam early Friday morning, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Austin police were called at 12:12 a.m. for a welfare check after witnesses reported seeing a body floating in the lake near the Wishbone Bridge pedestrian trail, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters recovered the body from the water. Austin-Travis County EMS said the person, an adult, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/crews-respond-to-structure-fire-in-n-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Crews respond to structure fire in N Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said the death is not being investigated as a homicide. The Travis County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office responded and reported no obvious signs of trauma, police said. The medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>The person has not been identified. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A body was found near the shore of Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-469911","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\/469911","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=469911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}