CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A search is underway for a 16-year-old North Texas boy missing since being swept away by Gulf surf at Corpus Christi.
A Corpus Christi police statement says officers received a call for help shortly before 11 a.m. Friday on Padre Island near Bob Hall Pier. A man told arriving officers that the teen had been swimming with a group but couldn’t be found when the group came ashore.
A police spokesman says rough surf quickly ended a boat search but officers are searching the shore while the U.S. Coast Guard searches by air.
In a statement, the superintendent of the Mansfield public schools, near Fort Worth, said the Lake Ridge High School ninth-grader had been attending the SkillsUSA state competition.
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