Internet/YouTube celebrity, 25 year old Sharissa Turk who got into the
limelight after starring in a rap video as the 'Blue Fairy' of
prescription pill addiction has been found dead from an apparent drug
overdose.
Turk, who was eight months pregnant, was discovered unresponsive by her
bf who got to their Staten Island home around 3pm on Tuesday and found
her lying unconscious in the hallway and called the police. When
paramedics got there, they pronounced her dead at the scene, reported
Staten Island Advance.
Turk had shared an ultrasound image of the baby girl she was expecting accompanied by the hashtag '#cantwaittomeetYOU.'
Turk played a pixie dancing around with blue wings and a wand, and
blowing ‘fairy dust’ at the camera as she and her group rapped about
prescription pill addiction in Staten Island, which they call
'painkiller paradise'.
The amateur rap video went viral in early 2013 after Turk was arrested
in a massive drug sweep and charged with selling Oxycodone to undercover
officers.
The sting operation resulted in 32 arrests across Staten Island and
netted hundreds of narcotics, as well as three handguns, a shotgun and
$17,000 in cash.
Turk pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled drug, but her case
was sealed and dismissed after she completed a court-mandated treatment
program involving regular drug testing and a 6pm curfew.
She was arrested and jailed again in August 2015 on suspicion of
criminal possession of a controlled substance, she pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to only two days of community service.
Her death is still being investigated to find the exact cause.
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