8-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Inside Houston Hotel Pool Pipe Hours After She Was Reported Missing
Mar. 15, 2025A pool at a Houston hotel has been shut down after an 8-year-old girl was found dead after going swimming there over the weekend.
Detectives said the child “was swimming with other family members in a lazy river style swimming pool” at the hotel on Northwest Freeway when she disappeared Saturday evening, according to a news release from theHouston Police Department.
The child was reported missing around 5:45 p.m. local time, and her body was found “inside a large pipe in the pool” around 11:30 p.m. that same night. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Miller said the child appeared to have been pulled into the pipe due to some sort of malfunction that seemingly caused it to pull water in rather than push it out.
“Many of us had to wipe tears from our eyes,” Miller said, recalling the moments after the girl’s body was discovered.
The hotel did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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According to the March 25 document from the Houston Health Department, an environmental investigator observed numerous violations, including a lack of “safety features” in the area, such as proper signage.
The investigator also said the small pool “has 32 inch channel drains on the walls” that do not have “a valid document stating their function, date of installation and date of expiration.”
The pool area will be reinspected on April 22, per the document.
Police said they are “awaiting autopsy results” and that an investigation is ongoing.
source: people.com
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