A fugitive accused in a Georgia mother's silicone injection death was captured after 17 years when she sought help renewing a license obtained with a stolen identity.
Fox News reported that Tamaira Angell Smith, 52, now faces a felony murder charge in the 2009 death of Eyanna Moore, a 29-year-old mother of four from Loganville, after authorities extradited her from Texas to Georgia.
Smith remains in the Gwinnett County Jail. A bond hearing is set for Oct. 22 at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Police say a routine attempt to fix a blocked license renewal finally exposed a fugitive who had stayed out of reach since warrants first issued in 2009.
The case began in a hotel room, not a clinic. It ended with facial recognition, a stolen South Carolina driver's license, and local officers in McKinney, Texas, locating her vehicle.
A Gwinnett County criminal arrest warrant states that Smith allegedly injected silicone into Moore's left buttock inside a Holiday Inn Express hotel room near Stone Mountain on May 30, 2009.
Moore died the following day.
Yolanda Hammond, Moore's maternal aunt, told reporters that Moore had researched the providers before agreeing to the procedure. The pitch looked legitimate online. It was not.
Hammond said the pair presented themselves as sisters, one as a doctor, Smith as a physician assistant, and used someone else's credentials.
"Eyanna did extensive research. The website checked out, they had reviews, but we later found out there was an actual cosmetic location except for they were not the real people."
She added a blunt summary of the fraud.
"They used someone else’s credentials to pose themselves as those people."
After the procedure, Smith called Moore's husband, David, and told him to bring yogurt and Gatorade to the hotel. He found his wife in distress and called 911.
When David later told Smith that Moore had died, Hammond said, the reaction was brief and final.
"He said she was screaming ‘no,’ and hung up the phone. Nobody never heard from her again."
Gwinnett police secured an arrest warrant in June 2009, first charging Smith with practicing medicine without a license. A felony murder warrant followed months later. By then, Smith had already fled.
Moore left behind four children, Tatiyanna, Faith, Fantasia, and Tristan. Two were so young they have no memory of their mother. Hammond described a young wife and mother who was building a better life.
"She was always advancing herself for a better career for herself and her family. She’s 29 years old and she had a full life ahead of her... well-educated young woman, married with children, and she just didn’t deserve that."
Smith did not simply disappear. In November 2018, she obtained a South Carolina driver's license using a woman's stolen identity, according to a Sept. 25 news release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
SLED later detailed how that fake paper trail became the trap.
Identity theft remains a preferred tool for people trying to erase a criminal past and move freely across state lines, a problem also reflected when a Colombian illegal immigrant was sentenced in a separate identity-theft case.
In July 2026, Smith contacted the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles for help after an alert on the license blocked an online renewal. That call set the cold case in motion.
In August, SLED assigned the identity-fraud investigation to Special Agent Shawn Ludwig. Facial recognition helped identify Smith and uncovered the outstanding murder warrant from Georgia.
Ludwig and Senior Special Agent Bridgette Lott then identified another alias tied to McKinney, Texas, and passed vehicle information to local police. McKinney officers located the vehicle and arrested her the same month.
SLED Director of Public Information Renée Wunderlich told Fox News Digital that the two agents worked the identification and vehicle steps together. Authorities then extradited Smith from Texas to Georgia.
False identities do not stay buried forever when agencies share data and act on flags. Similar accountability fights surface in election cases, including an Indian national indicted in Minnesota for alleged illegal ballot casting.
Hammond said the family plans to attend the hearings. She also framed Smith's undoing with plain disbelief at the risk the fugitive took.
"You ran for 17 years and then you call and ask for help under an alias, like really?"
Her larger point was practical, not theatrical. Unlicensed body procedures sold through fake credentials can kill. Hammond urged people to verify who is actually holding the needle.
"The thing that I would like for the world to know is just, you know, make sure you do your due diligence vetting these people. Make sure that you check the credentials."
She closed with a line that needs no spin.
"No alteration of your body is worth you losing your life."
Fox News Digital reached out to Smith's attorney. No response was reported in the coverage.
Stolen credentials and phony paper trails show up far beyond one hotel-room case. Federal prosecutors have pursued networks of fraud in multiple states, including when the DOJ charged 16 noncitizens and residents in alleged illegal-voting schemes that also turned on false identity claims.
Law enforcement still has to finish the job in open court. Smith is charged, not convicted. The warrant language, the family's account, and the SLED identity trail now meet a Georgia judge.
Other cases show the same basic lesson about records and enforcement. A Bahamian national with a violent criminal record was arrested in an illegal-voting case built on identity and eligibility failures, and ICE arrested a Peruvian national who admitted voting illegally in Kansas, reminders that weak identity controls invite abuse until someone finally checks.
A young mother is gone. Four children grew up without her. A fugitive who hid behind a stolen license is finally in a Georgia jail because a DMV alert, facial recognition, and agents who followed the paperwork did their jobs, proof that law and order still works when officials bother to enforce it.
