A TikTok character with greater than 4 million followers has been named as an individual of curiosity within the demise of a beloved therapist whose physique was discovered wrapped in a tarp on the facet of a Louisiana freeway.
A passerby had observed the suspicious tarp rolled on the facet of Freeway 51 simply earlier than 8am on Sunday and alerted the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace, Fox 8 Reside experiences.
Deputies who arrived on the scene then discovered the physique of well-known therapist and motivational speaker William Nicholas Abraham, 69, contained in the tarp.
Simply sooner or later later, a Baton Rouge police officer noticed 20-year-old Terryon Ishmael Thomas – higher identified on-line as Mr. Prada – driving Abraham’s black Lincoln MKZ, in keeping with an arrest warrant obtained by WBRZ.
It mentioned Thomas refused to obey because the officer tried to conduct a site visitors cease – and as an alternative backed into the police automobile and fled on foot whereas officers recovered the sufferer’s automobile.
An arrest warrant has been issued for 20-year-old Terryon Ishmael Thomas – higher identified on-line as Mr. Prada
Baton Rouge police say Thomas was driving a Lincoln MKZ on Monday belonging to a beloved therapist that was discovered useless simply sooner or later earlier than
He was later captured on a close-by retailer’s surveillance cameras, which police launched Monday night time as they sought out the suspect.
Thomas is now wished for aggravated legal harm to property, resisting an officer and unauthorized use of a motorcar.
He has not been charged within the therapist’s demise, which authorities say was brought on by blunt drive trauma.
‘It was a really bodily and really violent assault,’ Tangipahoa Sheriff Gerald Sticker mentioned, in keeping with WAFB.
‘He was bludgeoned about within the head, shoulders and neck. There was plenty of bruising.’
William Nicholas Abraham’s physique was discovered wrapped in a tarp on the facet of Freeway 51
A motive for the homicide stays unclear, however East Baton Rouge Parish court docket information obtained by WWL present Abraham was beforehand arrested in 2015 for allegedly inappropriately touching an 11-year-old boy throughout a remedy session.
Abraham was by no means charged within the incident, and Sticker mentioned that whereas he’s conscious of the arrest, he’s specializing in finding the place the therapist – who had a daily present on Baton Rouge tv – was killed.
‘Proper now now we have no inclination as to the place this originated,’ the sheriff mentioned.
He famous that there have been no weapons discovered on the facet of the freeway the place his physique was dumped, and a search of the sufferer’s residence in East Baton Rouge Parish additionally discovered no indications {that a} crime had been dedicated there.
The sheriff’s workplace is now in search of ‘any data that the general public can provide us to assist us put the image collectively of Saturday… night, earlier than he was finally murdered – which we imagine occurred someday Saturday night time,’ Sticker mentioned.
No weapons have been discovered on the facet of the highway the place Abraham’s physique was dumped
Abraham’s family and friends are additionally demanding solutions.
‘I wish to know who did it and I wish to know why,’ his brother, Tommy Abraham, informed WBRZ.
‘I watch the information each night time and I simply sit again there and cringe once I hear somebody killed someone,’ he mentioned. ‘It is simply not the best way it is speculated to be.’
‘Nobody ought to take a life however God. Nobody,’ Tommy added to WWL. ‘He is the one one that may take a life, and for somebody to take another person’s life, you are a coward.’
He and his brother, Joseph, mentioned Abraham had labored as a Catholic priest for 14 years, serving in Mississippi and Milwaukee, earlier than finally changing into a therapist.
Abraham additionally doubled as a life coach, ‘motivational speaker, recording artist, creator, instructor and trailblazer,’ in keeping with his web site, which notes that he had expertise treating substance abuse, nervousness and melancholy and labored with the LGBTQ group.
‘He made a mark on individuals’s lives and helped them be higher individuals,’ Joseph mentioned.
‘He was form, loving, a delicate man and admittedly not the sort of man that one thing like this might’ve occurred to,’ added Abraham’s lawyer, Jarret Ambeau.
‘I am completely devastated and utterly stunned that one thing like that would’ve occurred to a person who I imagine to be so tender and so light and have such a service coronary heart.’
