ICYMI: Harlem Woman Dies After Receiving Buttocks Injection: Reports

HARLEM, NY — A Harlem woman died weeks after receiving a cosmetic injection at a residential building in Gramercy, according to multiple reports.

Latesha Bynum, a 31-year-old mother of two, was taken off life support Thursday, her family told WABC Eyewitness News. Bynum was hospitalized on July 15, the same day she was given a cosmetic injection to her buttocks at an apartment building on East 21st Street between First and Second avenues, according to the report.

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After receiving the injection at 9 p.m. and returning home to Harlem, Bynum called 911 when she started to experience chest pains, Eyewitness News reported. Bynum's brother, Tymel, told CBS News that Latesha was put on life support and was eventually declared brain dead.

"After the procedure, something was wrong with my sister. I think her feet and stuff was blue," Tymel Bynum told CBS News. "She went to the hospital and couldn’t breathe and whatever was in her went to her head. She was brain dead and she had zero chance to basically come back from it."

According to her Brother, Bynum had received previous procedures from the person who gave her the injection.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Roberty Boyce told reporters that there's a "strong possibility" the back-alley plastic surgeons who operated on Bynum will be arrested.

“This happens, unfortunately, a couple times of year where we have these kinds of surgeries gone bad. These are not doctors. They should not be doing this," Boyce said as reported by the Daily News.

Residents of 319 East 21st Street told Eyewitness News that they had no idea somebody was performing medical procedures inside the residential complex.

"Shocking, shocking," resident Michael DeSouza told Eyewitness News. "I've lived here eight years since building went up and never heard anything like this."

Both the NYPD and the city Medical Examiner are still investigating Bynum's death, according to multiple reports

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