A 20-year-old TikTok persona has been charged with homicide after the physique of a therapist was found wrapped in a tarpaulin on a motorway.
Terryon Thomas, finest identified on-line as Mr Prada, was arrested in East Baton Rouge, Louisana, on Tuesday after 69-year-old therapist William Nicholas Abraham was discovered useless on the aspect of a street close to Tangipahoa Parish a couple of days earlier.
Thomas has a number of accounts on TikTok, one among which has 4.3 million followers and over 500 million likes.
He’s believed to have fled from police whereas driving Mr Abraham’s automobile. A later search of his house discovered proof indicating a violent altercation had occurred inside, in keeping with an arrest warrant affidavit filed by the sheriff’s workplace.
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Pictures of Thomas launched by police earlier than his arrest. Pic: Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace
Police discovered “a significant amount of blood” and “multiple sharp objects and other weapons,” NBC stated, citing the affidavit.
A launch by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Workplace stated the connection between the TikToker and Mr Abraham was unclear. It’s not thought Thomas was a affected person of the therapist.
Mr Abraham was seen getting into Thomas’s condominium on Saturday evening, in keeping with the arrest warrant. His physique was discovered the following day carrying the identical garments.
Witnesses informed police that Thomas was seen struggling to pull one thing wrapped in a blue sheet down the steps of the condominium constructing earlier than inserting the tarpaulin in Mr Abraham’s automobile, in keeping with the affidavit.
“It was a very physical and very violent attack,” Tangipahoa Parish sheriff Gerald Sticker informed native TV station, WAFB.
“He was bludgeoned about in the head shoulders and neck.”
A lawyer who beforehand represented Mr Abraham described him as a “very kind, very tender, very gentle man”.
He stated: “No one deserves to die this way, but I would have never expected someone of his disposition to have been violently murdered.”
Thomas gained reputation on TikTok for making comedy movies. The administration staff believed to signify the social media persona had been approached for remark by NBC.
He stays in custody in Dallas, Texas and is awaiting extradition to Louisiana.
