A woman posing as a doctor has been arrested and charged with killing a woman who died after authorities said her body was pumped with unknown toxic substances during a buttocks-enhancement surgery.
Shatarka Nuby, a 31-year-old mother, paid Oneal Morris, 32, hundreds of dollars to come to her house and inject her buttocks, hips, thighs and breasts with an unknown substance.
Morris, known as "the Dutchess", sometimes wore medical scrubs and a stethoscope.
She allegedly sealed Nuby's injections with super glue and cotton wool, according to Florida sheriffs' officials.
Nuby told friends the injections felt hard and hot and made her skin turn black.
She wrote a letter to US department of health investigators detailing the allegations before her death in March in Tallahassee, Florida and made a statement that Morris had given her injections about 10 times between 2007 and 2011, according to a court warrant.
An assistant medical examiner said she suffered "massive systemic silicone migration" from the injections, according to the sheriff's office.
Authorities said Nuby was one of several victims who sought out Morris for cosmetic procedures.
Some of the victims developed complications and infections after the injections, which contained mixtures of bathroom caulk, cement, super glue, Fix-a-Flat (used for repairing flat tyres) and mineral oil, deputies said.
Morris was arrested at her mother's South Florida home and charged with manslaughter.
Morris - who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman - was also arrested last autumn after nearly a year of being on the wanted list, and charged with practicing medicine without a licence with serious bodily injury.
Authorities said a victim who was looking to get a job at a nightclub and wanted a curvier figure paid Morris $700 (£447) for the injections in 2010.
Morris allegedly used some type of tubing and inserted the toxic chemicals into her backside during a painful procedure.
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