A 17-year-old high school senior was found shot dead inside her bedroom in East Orange, N.J., Wednesday morning, and police are investigating her death as suspicious, authorities said.
Aquilla Flood was found by a relative just before 7:30 a.m. An autopsy will be conducted to determine how she died.
Flood was a student at Campus High School in East Orange, where she was to attend senior prom next week. Finals were canceled at the school after administrators learned of her death.
Friends were stunned by the girl's violent death and said Flood was a popular student with aspirations of attending the Fashion Institute of Technology.
"She was the best person you could ever meet," friend Jadaisha Richardson said at a vigil for Flood Wednesday night.
"She was a sweet girl. She will truly be missed," said Flood's aunt Naimah Hicks. "My heart is totally broken."
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