A 20-year-old TikTok personality has been charged with murder after the body of a therapist was discovered wrapped in a tarpaulin on a motorway.<\/p>\n
Terryon Thomas, best known online as Mr Prada, was arrested in East Baton Rouge, Louisana, on Tuesday after 69-year-old therapist William Nicholas Abraham was found dead on the side of a road near Tangipahoa Parish a few days earlier.<\/p>\n
His cause of death was blunt force trauma, according to authorities, Sky News’ US partner network NBC reported.<\/p>\n
Thomas has multiple accounts on TikTok<\/strong>, one of which has 4.3 million followers and over 500 million likes.<\/p>\n He is believed to have fled from police while driving Mr Abraham’s car. A later search of his home found evidence indicating a violent altercation had occurred inside, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n Police found “a significant amount of blood” and “multiple sharp objects and other weapons,” NBC said, citing the affidavit.<\/p>\n A release by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said the relationship between the TikToker and Mr Abraham was unclear. It is not thought Thomas was a patient of the therapist.<\/p>\n Mr Abraham was seen entering Thomas’s apartment on Saturday night, according to the arrest warrant. His body was found the next day wearing the same clothes.<\/p>\n Witnesses told police that Thomas was seen struggling to drag something wrapped in a blue sheet down the stairs of the apartment building before placing the tarpaulin in Mr Abraham’s car, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n “It was a very physical and very violent attack,” Tangipahoa Parish sheriff Gerald Sticker told local TV station, WAFB.<\/p>\n “He was bludgeoned about in the head shoulders and neck.”<\/p>\n A lawyer who previously represented Mr Abraham described him as a “very kind, very tender, very gentle man”.<\/p>\n He said: “No one deserves to die this way, but I would have never expected someone of his disposition to have been violently murdered.”<\/p>\n Thomas gained popularity on TikTok for making comedy videos. The management team believed to represent the social media personality were approached for comment by NBC.<\/p>\n He remains in custody in Dallas, Texas and is awaiting extradition to Louisiana.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 20-year-old TikTok personality has been charged with murder after the body of a therapist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}