Dallas woman guilty of lethal buttocks injection

Dallas (AP) — A Dallas salon worker was found guilty Tuesday of murder in the death of woman injected in the buttocks with industrial-grade silicone during an illegal cosmetic procedure.

Denise “Wee Wee” Ross was found guilty after the Dallas County jury deliberated over the course of two days. The 45-year-old cosmetician also was found guilty of practicing medicine without a license.

Prosecutors said Ross injected the silicone into the buttocks of Wykesha Reid, 34, to give her what the salon called the “Wee Wee Booty.” The compound circulated through the 34-year-old woman’s lungs, probably causing her difficulty breathing, said Dr. Stephen Lenfest, who performed the autopsy on Reid.

She was found dead at the salon early one morning in 2015, having been dead for four to eight hours, Lenfest testified.