Dallas woman accused of murder after Fort Worth woman dies from silicone butt injections
Latora King of Fort Worth paid $1,000 for a butt injection procedure by a woman named Pamela Burnley, who was also known as “Jag Booty,” authorities say.
King complained of pain just after the procedure, which was done May 11 on a bed in a room of a house in Dallas, and she felt she was getting a fever, according to a warrant.
Six days later, King, 35, died at Texas Health Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth, and officials at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled she died from silicone pulmonary embolism and her death was a homicide. A pulmonary embolism can occur when silicone injections cause a blockage or blood clots in the lungs.
Burnley, 55, of Dallas, was booked into the Fort Worth Jail on Thursday and faced a murder charge in the case. She posted bail shortly after her arrest.
Burnley denied to Fort Worth police ever having performed the illegal silicone injections, and said she had only picked up King on May 11 at a Grandy’s parking lot in Dallas because the Fort Worth woman wanted to buy some purses, according to the warrant obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Friday.
Henry Campbell of Duncanville, Burnley’s attorney, declined to comment on Friday.
A witness told Fort Worth police Burnley had worked with another woman in Dallas who performed butt injections a few years ago, but the two had a falling out. And that other woman, who was not identified in the warrant, had gone to jail for murder because she had killed one of her clients, the witness said.
In 2017, Denise Rochelle “Wee Wee” Ross of Dallas was sentenced to 60 years for murder after a woman died from butt injections.
The Fort Worth warrant written by Detective K.C. Sullivan gave this account of the homicide:
In April, King was provided the Facebook profile of “Jaguar Tha Hair Biz” later identified as Pamela Burnley of Dallas. A sister of King’s told detectives she knew “Jag” because she an injection procedure done on her hip in 2013.
The sister told Fort Worth police that in 2013 she drove to an unknown Dallas address where “Jag” performed the hip injections, using a large needle and a plastic tube. “Jag” told her she was being injected with saline and water.
King contacted Burnley in April, and a friend drove her to Dallas on May 11 for butt injections. They met Burnley in a parking lot and King was then taken to a Dallas home. Another woman assisted Burnley in the procedure. The friend waited in Dallas.
The friend waited for several hours before she called King, who told her the procedure was done. King was dropped back off at the parking lot and the two drove home to Fort Worth.
As they were driving home, King told her friend that she was driven to a garage of a home where Burnley locked the doors of the car and would not let King out until she paid the $1,000 for the procedure.
Once the got back to Fort Worth, King became ill.
Fort Worth patrol officers responded to a death call on May 17 at the Fort Worth hospital, 11801 South Freeway.
Once they arrived, family members told Fort Worth police that King had recently received illegal silicone injections into her buttocks, according to a police incident report.
After King’s death, detectives found a photograph of King which was taken after her procedure. Her butt was wrapped in clear plastic wrap, and a detective noted that from the photograph it did not appear that the procedure was performed by a physician.
Other photographs of King also showed “grotesquely misshapen buttocks,” according to the warrant.
Fort Worth detectives seized Burnley’s Facebook records, which showed that multiple people had contacted Burnley and asked about butt injections.
The messages on Facebook indicated that Burnley had a history of providing illegal butt injections, according to the warrant.
Receipts found in Burnley’s home indicated a purchase for five gallons of silicone oil. Detectives did not find any the oil in Burnley’s home when they searched it.
In an interview with Fort Worth police, Burnley said she had purchased the silicone oil for hair treatment.
Just a few years ago, another Dallas woman was convicted of murder after giving amateur butt injections.
In 2017, Denise Rochelle “Wee Wee” Ross, 45, was convicted of murder and practicing medicine without a license in the death of client Wykesha Reid, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
Ross was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the murder of Reid, 34, who died during the procedure in 2015. The Dallas woman, known for injections that gave women the “Wee Wee Booty,” could be eligible for parole after serving 30 years, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Another woman charged in the case, Alicia Clarke, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 10 years as part of a plea agreement, the Morning News reported.
At trial, prosecutors said women hired Ross to give them the injections but they didn’t know what she put in the syringes, the Morning News reported.
Ross claimed the injections were saline or hydrogel, but court records showed she purchased thousands of pounds of industrial-grade silicone from a Grapevine business, the Morning News reported.
This story was originally published October 9, 2020 at 10:45 AM.
