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With all of the horrifying headlines associated with the dangers of illegal butt injections, it’s a wonder that women continue to seek out these black-market procedures.
Wykesha Reid, 34, set out to have her fourth procedure done at the Deep Ellum salon in Dallas on February 18. Sadly, she never returned home.
“Everybody else got big booties,” Patricia Kelley, 70, who raised Reid since she was a baby, told Dallas News. “So she wanted a big booty.”
“Your butt’s getting too big,” she recalled telling Reid. “But she got hooked on them booty shots.”
Unfortunately, Reid’s addiction to booty shots may have cost her life. Police discovered Reid’s body at the salon around 7 p.m. the following morning. The entire building had been cleared out and Reid’s purse and cell phone were also gone.
On Wednesday, police issued arrest warrants for Denise Ross, 43, and Jimmy Clarke, 31, who also goes by the name Alicia. Both face charges of practicing medicine without a license. They cannot be charged in Reid’s death until a medical examiner is able to prove that the illegal injections are what caused the nursing home employee to pass away.
Whether the shots caused her death or not, Reid’s family believes Ross and Clarke should be charged in her murder simply because they failed to call paramedics when they saw that Reid was in distress.
“I want to see them on trial for murder,” said Reid’s daughter, Keaira Reid, 20. “I’m very mad because anybody could have called 911.”
Clients of the Deep Ellum salon say that the pair ran a well-known butt injections operation out of the location for at least the past three years. Ross and Clarke allegedly used hydrogel injections, which they sealed with super glue. The injections were sold in $300 to $500 dosages.
“What makes me so mad is that they left the body there overnight. That is negligent,” said a 27-year-old former client of Ross and Clarke. “That hits home for me. I feel like, ‘Would you have done that to me?’”
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