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Very sad story from my neighborhood
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:46 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:46 am
11 year old boy drowns in Surfside TX accident
Joshua Lahai lived in my neighborhood, he was the youngest child of a family originally from Sierra Leone in Africa
His dad owns a mechanic shop in Houston and is one of the hardest working people I have ever met. Home every night at midnight, gone every morning at 6AM.
He and his family were on an outing to the beach at Surfside on Sunday with his Richmond, TX youth football team
reports are he and another boy had swam out to a sand bar approximately 150 yards off the beach where they could stand up. A large wave hit Joshua and dragged him underwater, sweeping him away. His family was there and witnessed the entire thing.
His body was recovered yesterday.
The local Western African community has poured out support for the family while the search was going on. There was an all night vigil at their house on Sunday and Monday night. The dad, Peter walked over to our house yesterday and my son spoke to him, I was not home. I can not imagine the pain they must be going through. There is a very large Western African community in our area and they are very tightknit through their churches and family activities.
The family has an older boy at PVAM, another teenaged son who is special needs and Joshua who was 11. Joshua and another neighborhood boy were always outside throwing the football in the yard. They would throw it waiting for the bus, they would throw it the second they got off the bus. They were always outside throwing that football. I last saw Joshua Saturday afternoon, throwing the football in his yard with another neighborhood kid.
RIP young man
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SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas — More than 30 hours after being swept away in the Surfside Beach waters, crews recovered a body believed to be that of a missing 11-year-old boy.
Joshua Lahai from Richmond was visiting Surfside Beach with a youth football team from Fort Bend County, according to Surfside Beach Police Chief Phillip Hester.
According to Hester, a man was fishing about 150 feet off the beach when he felt something touch his leg. It turned out to be Joshua's body.
Crews recovered the body and brought him back to shore. His body was found about half a mile west of where he was last seen.
Joshua had been missing for close to two full days. Officials said officers initially received the call about a distressed swimmer near the Ocean Avenue beach access point around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Hester said rough surf and strong currents were making the recovery efforts difficult.
Joshua Lahai lived in my neighborhood, he was the youngest child of a family originally from Sierra Leone in Africa
His dad owns a mechanic shop in Houston and is one of the hardest working people I have ever met. Home every night at midnight, gone every morning at 6AM.
He and his family were on an outing to the beach at Surfside on Sunday with his Richmond, TX youth football team
reports are he and another boy had swam out to a sand bar approximately 150 yards off the beach where they could stand up. A large wave hit Joshua and dragged him underwater, sweeping him away. His family was there and witnessed the entire thing.
His body was recovered yesterday.
The local Western African community has poured out support for the family while the search was going on. There was an all night vigil at their house on Sunday and Monday night. The dad, Peter walked over to our house yesterday and my son spoke to him, I was not home. I can not imagine the pain they must be going through. There is a very large Western African community in our area and they are very tightknit through their churches and family activities.
The family has an older boy at PVAM, another teenaged son who is special needs and Joshua who was 11. Joshua and another neighborhood boy were always outside throwing the football in the yard. They would throw it waiting for the bus, they would throw it the second they got off the bus. They were always outside throwing that football. I last saw Joshua Saturday afternoon, throwing the football in his yard with another neighborhood kid.
RIP young man
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Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:50 am to supatigah
Such a sad story. Beaches can be very dangerous, you cannot let your kids get far from you.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:51 am to supatigah
Awful
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:53 am to supatigah
Gut wrenching. So sad for the boy, his family, and his friends. Frightening the frequency these beach vacations turn into nightmares.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:00 am to supatigah
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SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas
Happens every year around the bridge, I used to fish that area frequently and got caught in the undertow one time and nearly drug out.
Learned my lesson quick.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:15 am to supatigah
The ocean wants to kill you. That's all it thinks about. It wakes up in the morning wanting to kill you and goes to bed wanting to kill you.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:24 am to supatigah
quote:
reports are he and another boy had swam out to a sand bar approximately 150 yards off the beach where they could stand up. A large wave hit Joshua and dragged him underwater, sweeping him away. His family was there and witnessed the entire thing.
damn
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:42 am to Topwater Trout
The panic that poor kid had to feel in those moments, and the absolute helplessness his family endured is terrible.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:03 am to supatigah
That's terribly sad, damn.
Also, 150 yards out seems really far for a sandbar. I'm unfamiliar with the beaches in that area, but that's a football field and a half off the shore. Is it common for people (especially kids) to swim out that far?
Also, this is its owl special level of terrifying too:
Terrible story all around.
Also, 150 yards out seems really far for a sandbar. I'm unfamiliar with the beaches in that area, but that's a football field and a half off the shore. Is it common for people (especially kids) to swim out that far?
Also, this is its owl special level of terrifying too:
quote:
a man was fishing about 150 feet off the beach when he felt something touch his leg. It turned out to be Joshua's body.
Terrible story all around.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:08 am to supatigah
Ok. Thats my fill of internet for today.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:09 am to CocomoLSU
People laugh at me for wearing a life jacket to the beach but idgaf
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:22 am to CocomoLSU
quote:
Also, 150 yards out seems really far for a sandbar. I'm unfamiliar with the beaches in that area, but that's a football field and a half off the shore. Is it common for people (especially kids) to swim out that far?
Also, this is its owl special level of terrifying too:
yeah it does seem excessive but the tide could have been out at that time. It was a distance estimate from the beach but even 100yds is a lot.
I am a big chicken when it comes to the ocean. I wont go out past standing up to my chest.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:25 am to supatigah
Thanks for ruining my day.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:30 am to supatigah
Respect the ocean when on the beach. Number 1 rule for beach goers
Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:41 am to supatigah
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I am a big chicken when it comes to the ocean. I wont go out past standing up to my chest.
Well your chest height and mine are totally different things, and you could be out 100 more feet than me by that rule.
I'm not particularly scared of the ocean, but I definitely have a healthy fear of it and respect for it (and I put that blame squarely on Jaws). And I have a general rule for myself that I don't go further out than anybody else I see in the water. But like you said, even 100 yards is a lot.
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