DALLAS _ A murder trial began Tuesday for a Dallas woman accused of injecting industrial-grade silicone into women's backsides in a series of amateur cosmetic surgeries.
Denise Rochelle "Wee Wee" Ross, 45, was known for giving women the "Wee Wee Booty," a prosecutor said.
She is accused of administering fatal butt injections to Wykesha Reid, 34, who was found dead Feb. 19, 2015, at a salon in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood.
Reid died after the silicone sealant entered her veins, traveled through her heart and was trapped in her lungs.
Jimmy Joe "Alicia" Clarke, 33, is also charged with murder in the case. His trial is set for June.
Defense attorney Heath Harris said in opening statements that there is no proof Ross was the one who gave Reid the silicone injection.
"It was Alicia that gave her the shots that led to her death, not Ms. Ross," Harris said.
He called Reid's death a "tragic, tragic, tragic accident."
But prosecutor Summer Elmazi said both Clarke and Ross performed the injections. She said women called Ross to set up the appointments, and her product was known as the "Wee Wee Booty."
The black-market butt injections were promoted by word of mouth, and Ross wouldn't give her clients an address to go to until the day of their appointment, Elmazi said.
She said Ross never told the women what she was using in the injections, occasionally even saying it was just saline.
"She never one single time ever told them she was injecting industrial-grade silicone into these women's bodies," Elmazi said.
The prosecutor said Ross didn't always disinfect the massage table that she asked clients to lie on for the injections and didn't always clean their skin. Once the injections were done, she would use super glue and cotton balls to seal the puncture wounds.
But, Elmazi said, Ross cleaned the room after Reid died, leaving behind little evidence that either woman was even there. Then she left Reid dead in the room, the prosecutor said.
"They left Wykesha Reid's body on that massage table," she said. "They left her there like a piece of garbage."
