Teen girl found dead in hotel after Aldine ISD prom 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Jacqueline Gomez was excited for prom, showing her friends her dress, asking advice on how to do her nails and getting ready for a night of celebration. 
 
 But something went wrong. The 17-year-old's body was found just before 11 a.m. Saturday in a room at the Hyatt Hotel at 425 N. Sam Houston Parkway E, where Aldine ISD's MacArthur High School held its prom the night before. 
 
 Gomez and her date spent the night of prom at the hotel, 15 miles north of downtown. According to police, the next morning, her date called 911 and told dispatchers Gomez wasn't breathing. 
 
 Rescue crews found her body, police said. 
 
 Gomez's friends are still trying to process the loss of their friend they had just celebrated with. 
 
 "It's shocking," said classmate Leandra Mendez, 19, who was with her at prom Friday. "I can't believe it. I mean, really, I can't believe it. 
 
 Talking about dresses 
 
 The girls spent the week leading up to the party talking about their dresses and all the details that go with prom. 
 
 Gomez confided to her friends that she planned to spend the weekend with her date - believed to be a former classmate - at the hotel, news that worried Mendez and friend Justice Gonzalez, 17. 
 
 "Me and Justice were telling her, 'Please don't go,' " Mendez said. 
 
 On Friday, she arrived around 8 p.m., wearing a light-colored dress speckled with silver sequins. She'd gotten her nails done, and her hair made up, hanging off of one side. 
 
 "Everything was going well, she was sitting at the table with us," Gonzalez said. 
 
 Gomez, a tall, slim, dark-haired girl, had struggled with school as a sophomore, Mendez said. But she'd had made it through her senior year, and was planning to take classes starting this summer at Lone Star College to become a pharmacy technician. 
 
 She spent a lot of her time working at the Kroger's on Aldine Mail Route Road in the store's pharmacy, Mendez said. 
 
 'Loved working' 
 
 "She loved working, she always loved working," Mendez said of Gomez, whom she described as "very outgoing, smart, very loud, never shy." 
 
 Around 11 p.m. Friday, Gomez left to go up to the hotel room. 
 
 "I told her right before left - she left early - I told her, 'Come here,' " Gonzalez said. She whispered in her friend's ear: " 'Just please be safe, Jackie.' And I gave her a hug, and she left." 
 
 Police said they are awaiting autopsy results, but that there were no signs of trauma and that her date has been cooperative. 
 
 "The boyfriend stated to us they had been drinking alcohol prior to going to sleep," said Jodi Silva, an HPD spokeswoman. A detective told a TV news reporter they were also looking into whether prescription painkillers were involved. 
 
 Aldine ISD officials could not be reached for comment. ||||| Investigators continue to try to determine what led to the death of a high school senior found dead in a north Houston hotel room Saturday morning following MacArthur's prom.Authorities identified that girl as 17-year-old Jacqueline Gomez. They say her boyfriend realized she wasn't breathing Saturday morning when he woke up at the Hyatt Hotel off the North Sam Houston Parkway. Investigators are now trying to determine what led to her death.From those staying at the hotel Friday night, the MacArthur prom seemed like any other affair; a celebration and memories made."It seems nice," said hotel visitor Michael Block. "It put me back to when I was in the 12th grade."It was at the after party that things got out of hand."You can imagine if you have ever attended a high school prom what goes on there," said Det. Mike Miller with HPD homicide. "This is no exception."On Saturday morning, police got a frantic call from a teenage boy, saying Gomez, his girlfriend, was not breathing in their 8th floor room."There was an indication that there was alcohol in the room," said Det. Miller. "Of course, prescription painkillers is something we're looking at as well."Hotel guest Kyren Block, 17, was staying in a room down the hall. He's here from San Antonio for a basketball tournament."We knocked on the door to see if anything was going on, but they didn't answer," he said.No answer, but Block says he could hear the partying going all night from that room."The boyfriend, at this point, is being completely honest with us and we have no reason to believe that he at all contributed to this death," said Det. Miller. "But in my line of work, you have to be absolutely sure."Another prom, one for Aldine High School, went on at the same hotel Saturday night. We spoke with some students who said this tragic event will make them think twice about what they'll do at and after prom. ||||| Mother: Daughter was not supposed to stay at hotel after MacArthur HS prom 
 
 HOUSTON – There are new startling details from the mother of a teenager found dead on prom night. Her mother feels like she was mislead by her daughter’s prom date and his mother. 
 
 “I said you look beautiful,” said Juana Barron, Jacqueline Gomez’s mother, as she looked at the last photo she snapped of her 17-year-old daughter. 
 
 “She was so happy,” said Barron. “You should have seen her big smile on her face when she left.” 
 
 Gomez was off to her senior prom at the Hyatt North Houston Hotel. Her mother was too distraught to show her face on camera, but said she expected to see her daughter back at home later that night. 
 
 However, the prom took a tragic turn. 
 
 “I do want to know, and I want to know who’s responsible for all that,” Barron said. 
 
 Her daughter spent the night in room 821 along with her date. He admitted they were drinking before they went to bed. The next morning, he told police she would not wake up. 
 
 Police said they found alcohol and prescription painkillers inside the room. 
 
 “She was underage,” said her mother. “She couldn’t get that stuff all by herself.” 
 
 Barron said Gomez’s date’s mother picked the couple up from her home. She also picked them up from the hotel later that night. That’s when she last spoke to her daughter on the phone. 
 
 “I just spoke to them after prom, a couple words, told me she was going to get something to eat,” said Barron. 
 
 That’s when the boy’s mother got on the phone and asked if Gomez could spend the night at their house. 
 
 “I said no, bring her back home,” said Barron. “I gave them a couple hours, and I never heard back.” 
 
 The next call she got was from a homicide detective with the Houston Police Department. She said detectives told her the room was booked by the boyfriend’s mother. 
 
 HPD tells KHOU 11 News they continue to investigate, but they do not believe the boyfriend played a role in the girl’s death. 
 
 For now, her close friends can only rally around each other. 
 
 “It was hard to walk to school today,” said Bibiana Gomez, Gomez’s close friend. “I just cried all day.” 
 
 They said they are learning to live without Gomez, while they wait for the answers everyone so desperately wants. 
 
 “My baby was my whole world,” said Barron. “She was smart, funny, everything. No words to describe her. She was just everything to me.” 
 
 HPD did confirm late Monday that the room was booked by the teenage boy’s mother, under his name. Autopsy results are still pending in this case. Toxicology results could take several weeks. 
 
 Meanwhile, Gomez’s mother has set up an online donation fund to help with her daughter’s funeral costs. If you would like to help, click here.
– A teenage girl celebrated her prom night by partying in a hotel room with her date, and ended up dead the next morning—possibly from a mix of alcohol and prescription painkillers, KHOU reports. Jacqueline Gomez, 17, was excited about her MacArthur High School prom in Houston, showing her dress to friends and asking for advice on doing her nails, reports the Houston Chronicle. And once the event at a Hyatt Hotel was over, she went upstairs with her date. "I told her right before left—she left early—I told her, 'Come here,'" said a friend, who whispered in her ear: "'Just please be safe, Jackie.' And I gave her a hug, and she left." A woman staying down the hall tells ABC13 she heard partying in the room all night and knocked on the door "to see if anything was going on, but they didn't answer." The next morning, Jacqueline's date frantically called 911 saying she wasn't breathing. He later told police they had been drinking, and police suspect painkillers were involved too. "We have no reason to believe that he at all contributed to this death," said a detective. "But in my line of work, you have to be absolutely sure." A friend of Jacqueline's said her "heart sank" when she heard the news: "I hoped it really wasn't her. I didn't want to believe it. She was an amazing girl."