Md. Woman Dies After Receiving Butt-Enhancement Silicone Injections in an NYC Basement (1002 hits)
Police are searching for the woman who performed the injection and who reportedly fled the scene when Kelly Mayhew began experiencing complications.
Kelly Mayhew, a 34-year-old Maryland woman, was having silicone injected into her buttocks to enlarge them Saturday, her mother told police, when she became short of breath, was rushed to a nearby hospital and died, the New York Daily News reports.
Mayhew, a freelancer for BET Networks, was having the cosmetic procedure administered in the basement of a Queens, N.Y., home by a woman posing as a credentialed plastic surgeon, the Daily News explains. When the woman injected silicone into Mayhew’s butt, Mayhew began “gurgling” and experiencing difficulty breathing. Mayhew’s mother, who had driven with her to the location, tried to administer CPR on her daughter and asked the woman who had given her the injection to call 911, the Daily News reports.
Instead, the woman ran out of the house, got into a gray SUV and fled, sources told the Daily News. Mayhew was taken to a local hospital, where she died. Mayhew’s sister described her shock on Facebook.
“Too soon only 34 years old, mah [sic] heart can’t believe it,” Mayhew’s sister Cece wrote.
Mayhew and her mother drove from Maryland to Queens so that Mayhew could have the procedure. Her mother told police that Mayhew had had five previous butt-enhancement procedures before Saturday’s fatal incident. Authorities were looking forthe unidentified woman who injected Mayhew.
