Police said, when the searchers found the girl in one of the pipes, HFD was called back out to the scene to recover her body.
Editor's note: The video attached to this article is from a previous report.died after she was “violently sucked into a 12- to 16-inch unsecured open gap in the swimming pool flow system.”Hours before she died, Aliyah’s family rented a room at the hotel to enjoy a day of swimming, the lawsuit said. However, around 4:50 p.m., they noticed that Aliyah disappeared in the hotel’s lazy river.
Around 5:20 p.m., Aliyah’s mother frantically searched for her daughter and asked hotel management to look at surveillance footage, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit states that hotel management denied her request and explained that police would have to be present to view it.According to the lawsuit, Texas EquuSearch and Houston police were finally granted access to view the security footage where it was discovered that Aliyah went underwater and never emerged.
The lawsuit says that a team was put together to drain the pool and video cameras were attached to 20-foot poles to inspect the pipes. Aliyah’s body was discovered wedged in the pipes of the"malfunctioning" pool equipment. The lawsuit alleges that Aliyah’s death was directly caused by the hotel's negligence and defective condition of the premises.KHOU would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.
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