Fox News Digital reported that a woman sought for 17 years in the death of a Georgia mother was arrested in Texas after she tried to renew a South Carolina driver’s license obtained with a stolen identity.
Tamaira Angell Smith, 52, now faces a felony murder charge in the 2009 death of Eyanna Moore and is being held in the Gwinnett County Jail after extradition from Texas.
The case turns on an alleged illegal silicone injection in a hotel room, a long flight from justice, and a modern identity check that finally closed the gap. Moore was 29, lived in Loganville, and left behind four children.
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. Gwinnett police secured an arrest warrant in June 2009 that first charged Smith with practicing medicine without a license. A felony murder warrant followed months later. By then, Smith had already fled.
Moore’s maternal aunt, Yolanda Hammond, told Fox News Digital that Moore had looked hard for a provider before the procedure.
"Eyanna did extensive research,"
Hammond said the online presentation looked legitimate at first.
"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 that the people involved used someone else’s credentials to pose as licensed providers. Hammond also said another woman presented with Smith and that the pair described themselves as sisters, one as a doctor and one as a physician assistant. Authorities have not publicly named that second woman in the material provided.
Hammond described what Moore’s husband, David, encountered soon after the procedure. Smith called and told him to come to the hotel with yogurt and Gatorade. He found Moore in distress and called 911.
After Moore died, Smith called David again to ask how she was doing. He told her Moore had died. Hammond relayed his account of that moment.
"He said she [Smith] was screaming ‘no,’ and hung up the phone,"
Hammond said the family never heard from Smith again after that call.
"Nobody never heard from her again."
A Sept. 25 news release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Smith obtained a South Carolina driver’s license in November 2018 using a woman’s stolen identity. The release did not publicly identify the identity-theft victim in the account summarized for this report.
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 contact set a cold identity-fraud file in motion.
In August, SLED assigned the identity fraud investigation to Special Agent Shawn Ludwig. Facial recognition helped identify Smith and revealed an outstanding murder warrant from Georgia.
SLED Director of Public Information Renée Wunderlich told Fox News Digital that Ludwig worked with Senior Special Agent Bridgette Lott. The agents identified another alias Smith used in McKinney, Texas, and provided vehicle information to local police. McKinney officers located the vehicle and arrested Smith in August. The additional alias was not named in the public account.
Authorities extradited Smith from Texas to Georgia. She remains in the Gwinnett County Jail and faces the felony murder charge tied to Moore’s death. A bond hearing is set for Oct. 22 at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center.
Fox News Digital reached out to Smith’s attorney. No public response from counsel appears in the reported material.
Investigators and prosecutors will still need to prove the charged conduct in court. Smith is an accused defendant, not a convicted offender. No medical examiner findings, full charge texts, or docket numbers appear in the public summary used here.
Moore’s children are Tatiyanna, Faith, Fantasia, and Tristan. Hammond said two of them were so young they have no recollection of their mother. The family has lived for 17 years with that absence while a wanted suspect remained free.
Hammond spoke about Moore’s aims and the loss that followed.
"She was always advancing herself for a better career for herself and her family,"
She also said Moore was a well-educated young woman, married with children, with a full life ahead of her, and that she did not deserve what happened.
Hammond’s message to the public was blunt about cosmetic shortcuts and fake credentials.
"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 that warning in plain terms.
"No alteration of your body is worth you losing your life."
On the arrest itself, Hammond voiced disbelief that a long flight from the law ended with a request for help under another name.
"You ran for 17 years and then you call and ask for help under an alias, like really?"
Gwinnett authorities built the original case in 2009 around the hotel-room allegation and later elevated the file to felony murder. SLED’s identity work in South Carolina, facial recognition, and cooperation with McKinney police produced the arrest that Georgia had not secured for 17 years.
Officials have publicly confirmed the stolen-identity license, the DMV contact after the renewal alert, the August investigation assignment, the Texas arrest, the extradition, and the Oct. 22 bond hearing. They have not publicly confirmed motive for the alleged injection or for the years Smith spent out of custody.
They also have not released, in this account, the stolen-identity victim’s name, Smith’s Texas alias, a second alleged presenter’s name, or detailed forensic findings on Moore’s death. Those remain matters for the case file and for whatever evidence the state puts forward in court.
Illegal cosmetic work sold under borrowed credentials is not a lifestyle story. It is unlicensed medical practice with lethal risk, followed here by a homicide charge and a multi-state manhunt that depended on ordinary DMV controls and interagency police work.
Moore’s relatives describe a mother who tried to check out a provider and still walked into a hotel room procedure that ended with a 911 call. Smith now sits in a Georgia jail on a felony murder warrant that sat open while she used a stolen identity to hold a South Carolina license.
The bond hearing will test immediate custody conditions. The larger test is whether the charged case can be proven, and whether identity systems and police coordination keep catching defendants who treat state lines like a shield.
When a wanted suspect can live under a stolen license for years, the public safety failure is real. When facial recognition, DMV alerts, and patient detective work finally reverse that failure, the system shows what steady enforcement still requires.
