Woman Dies After Numerous Illegal Butt Implants.

Wykesha Reid of Dallas, TX., was reportedly addicted to butt injections, having the backroom procedure done four times in a continuous effort to get the backside she always wanted. Unfortunately, that fourth time would definitely be her last, as she has become the latest victim of illegal butt shots to die due to the questionable procedure.

The woman who raised Reid, Patricia Kelley, claims Reid couldn’t help herself, and even after telling her that her butt was big enough, she continued with the injections. “Your butt’s getting too big,” Kelley recalled telling her. “But she got hooked on them booty shots.” Police found Reid’s body inside the “salon” where she’d received her shots. The building had been cleaned out and her purse and cell phone were also missing.

Reid’s family currently awaits the results of the Dallas County medical examiner’s toxicology report to officially rule that the injections killed her. Depending on the results, her family wants someone to be held responsible.

See a few pics of the victim above.

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Wykesha Reid went to the Deep Ellum salon for the same reason many others did: She wanted to add curves.

“Everybody else got big booties,” Patricia Kelley, 70, who had raised Reid since she was a baby, said Reid told her. “So she wanted a big booty.”

Reid, 34, a nursing home staffer, joined a growing number of people who are turning to black-market buttocks injections — which are much cheaper and riskier than plastic surgery — to get their bodies closer to pop-culture idols such as Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.

Reid went to the salon in the 3800 block of East Side Avenue three times for the injections with no problems.

“Your butt’s getting too big,” Kelley recalled telling her. “But she got hooked on them booty shots.”

On Feb. 18, Reid returned to the salon for a fourth visit, Kelley said Thursday. But something went wrong. Police found her body inside the business at 7 the next morning. The building had been cleaned out and her purse and cellphone were missing, Kelley said.

Now Reid’s family hopes someone will be brought to justice in her death.

Police issued arrest warrants late Wednesday on charges of practicing medicine without a license for Denise Ross, 43, and Jimmy Clarke, 31, who also is known as Alicia.

Ross and Clarke are wanted in connection with a case in which a woman who received butt injections suffered pain, soreness and psychological problems but survived.

Ross was also arrested in December 2010 in Glenn Heights for practicing medicine without a license.

Police say they can’t build a case against the pair in Reid’s death unless the Dallas County medical examiner rules the injections killed her. The examiner’s ruling is awaiting toxicology results, which could take two months.

But even if the shots didn’t kill Reid, her family is angry the person who accompanied her that day and whoever administered the injections didn’t call paramedics.

“I want to see them on trial for murder,” Reid’s 20-year-old daughter, Keaira Reid, said of whoever was with her mother that night. “I’m very mad because anybody could have called 911.”

$300 to $500

On Thursday, two former clients of Ross and Clarke said the pair ran a well-known illegal butt-enhancement operation at the Deep Ellum location for at least the last three years.

The clients said Ross and Clarke used hydrogel injections sealed with Super Glue, which they sold in $300 or $500 dosages in 15- to 45-minute sessions. The injections have long been popular among dancers and transgender women, they said.

“As women, we always find something wrong with our bodies,” said Cece Taylor, a 25-year-old dancer at local gentlemen’s clubs. She said other dancers recommended Ross, who goes by the nickname “Wee Wee.”

“Men glorify big butts,” Taylor said. “Also, to be honest, in the black community, if you have a bigger butt, you get paid more.”

Another dancer, a 27-year-old woman who had been a patient of Ross and Clarke for three years, said she was pleased with their work.

“My butt has increased in size quite a bit. It would be like taking somebody with an A-cup breast and putting D’s on them,” said the woman, who requested anonymity because she feared retaliation from the pair.

The woman said she paid a licensed plastic surgeon $4,700 for breast implants and wanted to go a cheaper route for her buttocks.

She said she received the same information about after-care procedures in the legal and illegal settings: Keep the area clean, don’t scratch or pick at it and don’t put weight on it for several days.

But she said Reid’s death has made her think twice about Ross and Clarke.

“What makes me so mad is that they left the body there overnight. That is negligent,” she said. “That hits home for me. I feel like, ‘Would you have done that to me?’”

Super Glue

Police documents and interviews with Taylor and the other woman describe how Ross and Clarke worked.

Both women said Ross and Clarke seemed professional.

Taylor said Ross and Clarke first asked her what look she was trying to achieve and why she was there. They wanted to make sure her boyfriend or husband wasn’t pressuring her, she said.

Taylor said the pair instructed her to take off her pants and lie on a table, which was covered with paper. They took needles from packages and told her they would use hydrogel. She said it didn’t hurt much — only as much as a vaccine.

Taylor said she asked Ross and Clarke for more injections when they were finished, but they refused, citing safety reasons.

Afterward, Taylor said, the pair put Super Glue on cotton balls to close up the sites of the injections.

Not everyone’s experience was as pleasant. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, a woman told police she felt “intense pain” and “was told to be quiet after screaming in agony.”

Taylor said that after she heard about Reid’s death, she went to the emergency room because she was worried. A doctor told her she should be fine.

Dallas County court records show Clarke has convictions for prostitution, lewd public conduct and possession of cocaine. Ross has convictions for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, assault, possession of drugs and theft.

Dallas Assistant Chief Randy Blankenbaker said Reid’s is the first such death that Dallas police have investigated recently. But deaths related to black-market buttocks injections have been reported in New York, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

Larry Bernard, a Dallas-based entertainer who goes by the name Armani Nicole Davenport, is awaiting trial in New Orleans on a negligent homicide charge in connection with the silicone injection death of another transgender woman, Brenisha Hall.

Last September, Tracey Lynn Garner of Jackson, Miss., was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of injecting silicone into the buttocks of Karima Gordon, killing her.

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• Wykesha Reid, 34, was found dead on a massage table at the Deep Ellum salon in Dallas on February 19, with her pants partially pulled down and a blood-stained gauze on her butt

  The nursing home staffer had already gone to the salon three times for the injections without experiencing any problems before she decided to go back a fourth time.

  ‘Your butt’s getting too big,’ Kelley recalled telling her.

  ‘But she got hooked on them booty shots,’ she told the Dallas News.

  Reid ‘s fourth visit took place on February 18 and police found her body inside the business at 7am the next morning.

  The building had been cleaned out and her purse and cellphone were missing.

  Police believe the victim suffered a medical emergency while having injections in her buttocks.

  Suspects: Dallas police are hunting Denise Rochelle ‘Wee Wee’ Ross (left) and Jimmy Joe Clarke – also known as ‘Alicia’ – (right) who are linked to botched butt injections carried out on two women, one of whom died

  Police issued arrest warrants on Wednesday on charges of practicing medicine without a license for Denise ‘Wee Wee’ Ross, 43, and Jimmy Clarke, 31, who also is known as Alicia.

  The body was found by Clarke at 7.50 a.m. and Reid’s daughter, Keira, told police that her mother had booked a session to have ‘butt injections’ and that a woman who goes by the name of ‘Wee Wee’ and a transgender person were going to carry out the procedure. 

  Clarke told police that she had no idea how Reid had died. She claims that Reid arrived at the business on February 18 complaining that she ‘was not well and wanted to lay down’, so she locked her in the building overnight and discovered her body when she returned in the morning.

  The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that it found injection marks and a silicone-type substance on Reid’s buttocks, according to Wfaa.com.

  Reid’s family are calling for the pair to be brought to justice.

  ‘I want to see them on trial for murder,’ said Keaira Reid, 20. ‘I’m very mad because anybody could have called 911.’

   

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  Wykesha Reid had always ‘wanted a big booty’ and the nursing home staffer had already gone to the salon three times for the injections without experiencing any problems before she decided to go back a fourth time

   

  The death follows a complaint to police by a 27-year-old woman who said that she visited the salon on February 9 and paid $520 to have buttock injections, but ended up screaming in agony when ‘unknown’ substances were used on her.

  The holes were then closed with superglue, she said. She later identified Ross and Clarke as the people who carried out the operation.

  The suspects’ whereabouts are currently unknown. Neither are registered with the Texas Medical Board.

  Dallas County court records show Clarke has convictions for prostitution, lewd public conduct and possession of cocaine. 

  Ross has convictions for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, assault, possession of drugs and theft.