Suyima Torres, 28, received butt-enhancing injections from a man who claimed to be a doctor from Venezuela, CBS4 News reported. The man used a plastic syringe to inject an oily yellow substance into the woman's behind, according to court documents obtained by the news station.
"She really liked to look pretty all the time, she would go to Walgreens with makeup on," Suyenmis Torres, the woman's sister, told CBS4's Brian Andrews.
The "doctor" gave Torres her first injections in each butt-cheek for $1,500. He said she could get her second course of injections in four to six weeks.
When Torres went back to the beauty clinic only six days later to get her stitches removed, the "doctor" told her that he was leaving the country and she could come for her second injections in a few days provided she brought $800 in cash with her.
Shortly after receiving her second injections, Torres began to feel dizzy and fainted. An owner of a neighboring business identified only as Naveed saw Torres fall down, according to NBCMiami.
"I was looking at her and she fell down so I went outside, I picked her up, I asked her where's her car," he said.
The woman's mother, Coralia Espinosa, and Cuerpos Health and Aesthetics owner Ruth Planas accompanied Torres to the hospital. Torres died only 10 hours later.
Planas "refused to supply any information" to the medical examiner, who was trying to figure out what caused Torres' death, reported CBS4.
"Maybe if that woman would've told them early my daughter would still be here," Espinosa told NBCMiami.
The unidentified man who administered the injections is thought to have left the country, but is under criminal investigation for manslaughter and unlicensed practice of medicine, but no charges have been filed so far. Planas has not been named a suspect, according to CBS4.
Torres had just started her own business and had a promising life ahead of her. She left behind two daughters, aged seven and eight. The young woman's father, Juan Torres, said after two months he misses his daughter every day.
Dailen Garcia, 20, also received the injections from the center, she was hospitalized in the intensive care unit with bleeding of the lungs and blurred vision, according to NBCMiami.
"All the physicians in the medical records have directly linked the cosmetic injections with the damages that she's had," said her attorney, Jorge Gutierrez.
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