A popular TikToker was arrested Tuesday as a “person of interest” in the murder of a Louisiana therapist, shocking his millions of online fans.
Terion Ishmael Thomas is a 20-year-old video creator known as “Mr. A man who posted “Prada” on a social media platform was taken into custody in Dallas, Texas after being pursued by police. searchreported WVUE.
Mr. Thomas, who has more than 8.2 million followers on two TikTok pages, is the son of 69-year-old William Nicholas, whose body was found wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a ditch beside a highway on Sunday. He is a person of interest in Mr. Abraham's death. 51st in Southeast Louisiana.
Tangipahoa Diocese officials said Abraham, a Catholic priest for 14 years, died from blunt force trauma to the head, neck and shoulders.
Sheriff Gerald Stecker said it was a “very physical, very violent death.”
On Monday, Baton Rouge police officers tried unsuccessfully to stop Thomas, who was believed to be driving Abraham's car. The TikToker allegedly backed into a police officer's car and then fled on foot.
The Baton Rouge Police Department announced that an arrest warrant for the influencer was executed in Dallas on Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force. press release.
Thomas was arrested on charges of “gross criminal damage to property, resisting an officer, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.”
Abraham is a follower of “Mr. Prada” accused He was accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old male patient in 2015, and theorized that it could be related to the murder charge.
“When I heard that Mr. Prada was said to have received SA, [sexually assaulted] “It's insane that he told the police that his therapist killed him and the police did nothing and now he's being charged with murdering his therapist,” said one X user. .
“People need to believe the victim so he doesn't become a suspect. The boy had been crying for help for months,” the account added.
“It's actually quite disgusting how many creators don't mention the possible sexual assault of Mr. Prada by that therapist,” another user wrote.
Despite online speculation that Thomas may have been the boy in the nearly 10-year-old incident, the lawyer who represented the therapist in the case said: said WAFB said it was “clearly not him.”
Abraham was briefly imprisoned for the crime after the accusations were made, but the case was never brought to trial.
After news of Abraham's death broke, District Attorney Hillar Moore told local media: “Although there was probable cause for the arrest, our office does not believe the evidence supports our burden at trial. “We needed to determine whether the evidence was positive and beyond a reasonable doubt.” “This matter has been under consideration in my office for approximately two years. After considering all available evidence, the best interests of the child, and the lack of incriminating statements by those arrested, we has given up on formal prosecution.”
As of Wednesday, Thomas had not been charged with Abraham's murder.
Sheriff Sticker said investigators are “urging for any information the public can provide to help us determine the circumstances leading up to his eventual murder Saturday night.” statement obtained by daily mail.
Tommy Abraham, the victim's brother said WBRZ says it wants answers.
“I want to know who did it and why,” he told the outlet. “I watch the news every night and I just sit there and get tired of hearing about someone killing someone. That's not how it should be. It's not what it's supposed to be. ”
Some of Mr. Prada's followers previously posted a video of him with the caption: “Practicing my headshot because if you piss me off too much, you might find God this year.” He also pointed out that.
“No one should take a life but God. No one,” Tommy Abraham said in another article. statement “He's the only one who can take a life, and he's a coward to take someone else's life,” he told WWLTV.
Abraham was well known in the Baton Rouge area and appeared weekly on WBRZ. A weekend with Whitney.
