What began as a sunny Sunday at Hamm Creek Park turned tragic for one Johnson County family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven-year-old Bowyn Miller and four-year-old Banx McAmis played near the Brazos River, laughing and enjoying the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 6 p.m., the boys went missing. Parents searched frantically<\/p>\n\n\n\n
while emergency crews combed the river and surrounding area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After more than two hours, the boys were found but pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigators confirmed the deaths were accidental drownings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachers described Bowyn as \u201ccurious and kind,\u201d while friends remembered Banx as a \u201clively, joyful little boy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The community held vigils, left flowers, and raised over $35,000 to support the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A relative wrote, \u201cThey left us too soon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but their memory reminds us to hold our children close,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
cherish time together, and never take a single day for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. A Day by the River What began as a sunny Sunday at Hamm Creek Park turned tragic for one Johnson County family. Seven-year-old Bowyn Miller and four-year-old Banx McAmis played near the Brazos River, laughing and enjoying the afternoon. 2. Disappearance and Search Around 6 p.m., the boys went missing. Parents searched frantically while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9137,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions\/9137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}