Woman Dies While Recovering From Cosmetic Surgery, Family Demands Federal Investigation

A Chicago mother of four died in recovery following an invasive cosmetic procedure she received in the Dominican Republic.

Sucretta Tolliver was operated upon on Dec. 12, per her family. She died two days later at a recovery home in the Caribbean country. Her family has called for a federal investigation into what led to her death.

Sucretta was a successful businesswoman and ran a popular luxury boutique in the Brighton Park neighborhood.

"Life is precious, and you don't know that until you're robbed of it, and I feel like that as her daughter, and speaking for my family, we've been robbed," Sucretta's daughter Mariah Price said, according to NBC5.

Sucretta's death reportedly stemmed from the botched surgery. "I got on the phone with her that night, the night before she passed, and she just sounded like she was in so much pain," Price said, adding she felt helpless for being unable to help care for her mother from a thousand miles away. "She was like 'I wouldn't wish this on nobody. It hurts so bad,'" the daughter recalled.

The victim's brother William Tolliver said Sucretta's official death certificate cited internal bleeding as the cause behind her death. However, the family is urging the FBI and State Department to investigate what went wrong.

"They did their report in the Dominican, but when she gets back home we're going to do our own reports and then we'll sort it out," William said, adding, "I'm going to be standing strong on justice for my sister. The only way that I feel like I can have any type of fight back towards what happened to her is for it not to happen to anybody else."

The family is currently working with the U.S. Embassy to bring Sucretta's body back home.

In a similar incident that took place in May, an NYC Department of Correction Captain died after receiving a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) surgery reportedly from a fake medical practitioner in the Dominican Republic. Tandra Bowser-Williams, 49, suffered a massive stroke after the surgery and died. She was brought out of a medically induced coma so they could unlock her phone to contact her husband. While on the call, Bowser-Williams' husband could hear her complaining about her stomach and butt.