Maxine Messam: Connecticut woman with butt lift injection wounds dies at Bronx hospital
A Connecticut woman named Maxine Messam was brought unconscious to a hospital in the Bronx. The woman then died after she was unresponsive. NYPD thinks that something was injected into her buttocks. According to the New York Police Department, two women dropped off a 53-year-old woman at Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park shortly before 2 am on Tuesday (16th February) and then fled. Medical personnel pronounced the woman deceased after she became unconscious and unresponsive. The hospital phoned 911 at 1:51 am shortly after the woman died and police were dispatched.
The woman was from Bridgeport, according to the NYPD. According to investigators, the woman had several injection wounds on both buttocks. She was nude below her waist and seemed to have been injected with an unknown chemical. The two women who transported the unconscious woman to Jacobi told while admitting her to the hospital that they found her near Woodlawn Cemetery and drove her to the hospital in her own car. Police said an autopsy will determine Messam’s cause of death.
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Meanwhile, two unknown females are being sought by NYPD as they took Maxine Messam, 53, to Jacobi Medical Center in her own BMW SUV and then walked away leaving the car behind. The victim's startled husband Carlos Simpson told The Sun outside the family’s home in Bridgeport, “We don’t know what happened. She was at work and she left work. So we don’t know what happened from there.” Messam's son, who did not want to be identified, said, “Everybody is really emotionally damaged at this point in time. I would like to say something, but we don’t have all the details.”
In recent years, women who could not afford to go to professional cosmetic surgeons have turned to fraudsters posing as certified plastic doctors and promising risky modifications at a discount. Leslie Ayala died in June 2018 after receiving an unlawful buttocks injection. Ayala traveled to the city from Philadelphia for the dangerous treatment, according to cops. She collapsed into cardiac arrest at a friend's house on Seward Ave in Castle Hill, where she was staying, NY post reports.
A Harlem mother who had buttock enlargement surgery also died in a similar way according to Fox26. Latesha Bynum, 31, went to a shady clinic on July 15, 2017, to obtain silicone injections from someone pretending to be a doctor, according to her family and lawyer. The phony physician, Kevin Richardson, who conducted Bynum's surgery pled guilty to charges of second-degree homicide and illegal practice of a profession. He was given a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.