According to KMOV.com, Nitica Lee, 44, faces first-degree manslaughter charges after administering illegal buttock injections that killed a 22-year-old woman.
Daysha Phillips, 22, died days after she and three other women received the illegal buttock injections in a hotel room near Lambert Airport. Phillips’ family said she felt ill almost immediately after the procedure and died four days later.
“The victim went into respiratory distress, it was determined by family members what had occurred that could have led up to it,” said Chief Miklos Hurocy of the Edmundson Police Department. “They added two and two together and we were notified.”
Police said they do not yet know how much Phillips and the three other women paid to get the injections in a hotel room at the Drury Inn in Edmundson, or what exact substance was injected into the women.
It could be up to three weeks before the St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office can determine what was injected into Phillips. Meanwhile, police are working to gather information from the surviving victims and to track down any suspects from the hotel’s surveillance footage.
Information from KMOV.com contributed to this report.