A woman accused of killing a Loganville mother with an illegal silicone injection evaded capture for 17 years until she herself tipped off investigators by asking for help renewing a driver’s license obtained under a stolen identity, authorities said.
Tamaira Angell Smith, 52, has been extradited from Texas to Georgia and now faces a felony murder charge in the 2009 death of Eyanna Moore, a 29-year-old Loganville woman. Smith is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail.
According to a Gwinnett County criminal arrest warrant, Smith injected silicone into Moore’s left buttock inside a Holiday Inn Express hotel room near Stone Mountain on May 30, 2009. Moore died the next day.
Moore’s maternal aunt, Yolanda Hammond, told Fox News Digital that her niece had researched the procedure beforehand. Smith and another woman presented themselves as sisters, one claiming to be a doctor and Smith posing as a physician assistant.
“Eyanna did extensive research,” Hammond said. “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. They used someone else’s credentials to pose themselves as those people.”
Hammond said Smith called Moore’s husband, David, shortly after the procedure and told him to bring yogurt and Gatorade to the hotel. When he arrived, he found Moore in distress and called 911. Smith later called back to check on Moore, according to Hammond.
“He said she [Smith] was screaming ‘no,’ and hung up the phone,” Hammond said. “Nobody never heard from her again.”
Gwinnett police obtained an arrest warrant in June 2009, initially charging Smith with practicing medicine without a license. By the time a felony murder warrant was issued months later, Smith had already fled.
A License Request Unravels the Trail
In November 2018, Smith obtained a South Carolina driver’s license using a stolen identity, according to a Sept. 25 news release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
In July 2026, she contacted the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles for help after an alert on the license blocked her from renewing it online. SLED assigned the identity fraud case to Special Agent Shawn Ludwig in August, and facial recognition technology linked Smith to the outstanding murder warrant.
SLED Director of Public Information Renée Wunderlich said Ludwig and Senior Special Agent Bridgette Lott worked the case together, eventually tracing another alias Smith had used in McKinney, Texas. They passed vehicle information to local police, who located Smith’s car and arrested her in August.
Hammond said she was stunned by how the case finally broke.
“You ran for 17 years and then you call and ask for help under an alias, like really?” she said.
A bond hearing for Smith has been scheduled for Oct. 22 at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Fox News Digital reached out to her attorney for comment.
A Family Left Behind
Moore’s death left four children — Tatiyanna, Faith, Fantasia and Tristan — to grow up without their mother. Two of them were too young at the time to remember her. The family plans to attend upcoming court hearings.
“She was always advancing herself for a better career for herself and her family,” Hammond said. “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.”
Hammond said she hopes Moore’s death raises awareness about the dangers of unlicensed cosmetic procedures.
“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 said. “No alteration of your body is worth you losing your life.”
