Fugitive suspect in Georgia moms silicone injection murder captured 17 years later after DMV slipup: cops

A woman wanted for 17 years in a Georgia mothers death after an illegal silicone injection helped set her own arrest in motion by asking officials to renew a drivers license she had obtained using a stolen identity, authorities said.

Tamaira Angell Smith, 52, faces a felony murder charge in the death of Eyanna Moore, 29, of Loganville. Authorities extradited Smith from Texas to Georgia, where she remains in the Gwinnett County Jail.

Smith allegedly injected silicone into Moores left buttock inside a Holiday Inn Express hotel room near Stone Mountain on May 30, 2009, according to a Gwinnett County criminal arrest warrant.

Moore died the following day.

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Moores maternal aunt, Yolanda Hammond, told Fox News Digital that her niece researched providers before agreeing to the procedure. Hammond said Smith and another woman presented themselves as sisters, one a doctor and Smith as a physician assistant.

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"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 elses credentials to pose themselves as those people."

Hammond said Smith called Moores husband, David, shortly after the procedure and told him to come to the hotel with yogurt and Gatorade. When he arrived, he found Moore in distress and called 911.

Smith later called David to ask how Moore was doing, Hammond said. He told her Moore had died.

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"He said she [Smith] was screaming no, and hung up the phone," Hammond said. "Nobody never heard from her again."

Gwinnett police secured an arrest warrant in June 2009, first charging Smith with practicing medicine without a license. When the felony murder warrant came months later, Smith had already fled.

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Smith then obtained a South Carolina drivers license using a womans stolen identity in November 2018, according to a Sept. 25 news release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).

In July 2026, Smith contacted the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles for assistance after an alert on the license prevented her from renewing it online.

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SLED assigned the identity fra