Woman’s Death Tied to Illegal Surgery
Police in South Florida searched for a man suspected of accidentally killing a woman during illegal plastic surgery to enlarge her buttocks.
Vera Lawrence, a 53-year-old employee in Miami-Dade County’s community development division, died in a local hospital after being injected in the buttocks with either silicon or collagen, police in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Miramar said.
Hospital officials phoned police to report the suspicious death of the woman, brought in by rescue workers after suffering breathing difficulties at an apartment building.
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