After 69-year-old therapist William Nicholas Abraham was discovered dead on the side of the road close to Tangipahoa Parish a few days earlier, Terryon Thomas, also known online as Mr. Prada, was taken into custody in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
Authorities have reported that blunt force injuries was the cause of his death, News.
Thomas has several accounts on TikTok, with almost 500 million likes and 4.3 million followers on one of them.
He is thought to have driven Mr. Abraham’s vehicle and escaped from the police. According to an arrest, evidence of a violent altercation that had taken place inside his residence was discovered during a subsequent search.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office released a statement stating that it was unknown how the TikToker and Mr. Abraham were related. Thomas is not believed to have been the therapist’s patient.
The arrest warrant states that on Saturday night, Mr. Abraham was observed going inside Thomas’s flat. The following day his body was discovered still dressed in his clothes.
According to the affidavit, witnesses reported to police that Thomas was observed laboriously dragging something covered in a blue sheet down the apartment building’s steps before putting the tarpaulin in Mr. Abraham’s car.
