Blood, Surveillance Video Led to Homicide Cost In opposition to TikTok Star In Slaying of Therapist: Police

The content material creator, actual identify Terryon Thomas, has been charged with homicide within the second diploma and obstruction of justice, after his arrest earlier this week in Texas on a warrant from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Workplace.

An arrest warrant affidavit from the sheriff (through Regulation & Crime) particulars the case in opposition to Thomas, revealing how the 20-year-old viral star was linked to the homicide of Abraham, who was discovered useless wrapped in a tarp on the facet of the freeway.

Per the affidavit, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace in Louisiana was dispatched to Freeway 10 this previous Sunday morning, September 29, round 8:25am to research a “suspicious merchandise.”

“Through the preliminary investigation, TPSO Detectives positioned a blue tarp on the east facet of U.S. Freeway 51. When the merchandise was reduce open, the stays of a deceased white grownup male had been found,” learn the docs. “The physique was discovered to be wrapped in a grey coloured comforter with dark-colored duct tape used to wrap across the physique. The pinnacle of the sufferer was discovered to be lined with a dark-colored towel. The sufferer appeared to have sustained blunt-force trauma to the top.”

Detectives then decided Abraham’s car was lacking, earlier than it was noticed through regulation enforcement expertise at a shopping mall after the physique was discovered. That is after they issued a BOLO for the automotive and launched screenshots of CCTV footage that includes the suspect. At that time, he was solely named as an individual of curiosity, although they did not know his id on the time. After posting the images to social media, the submit was flooded with feedback saying the suspect regarded rather a lot like Thomas.

After releasing the pictures, authorities “acquired data positively figuring out the Black male within the images launched within the information media as Terryon Thomas.”

A Baton Rouge police officer later tried a cease of Abraham’s car after they ran the license plate and it got here again as stolen. A warrant was then issued for his arrest, initially just for resisting an officer, aggravated felony harm to property and unauthorized use of a motorcar. Per the warrant, Thomas was recognized by the identical officer after being given a six-photo lineup, whereas his body-worn digital camera allegedly “coincided along with his assertion.”

On the identical time, authorities allegedly realized Thomas was given a experience again to his personal condo in Baton Rouge, which officers then obtained a search warrant for.

“Through the execution of the residential search warrant, EBRSO Murder Detectives found proof that indicated a violent bodily altercation ensued contained in the condo,” reads the affidavit. “A big quantity of blood was noticed all through the condo, together with a number of sharp objects and different weapons. It ought to be famous that further proof indicated an obvious effort to discard proof by cleansing the scene.”

Surveillance footage additionally allegedly confirmed the sufferer displaying as much as Thomas’ condo round 11am on Saturday, September 28. Per detectives, he was sporting the identical garments on his physique when “discovered deceased wrapped within the tarp.”

Thomas was additionally allegedly noticed “dragging an object wrapped in a blue-colored tarp hours after the Sufferer was final seen alive,” with authorities saying witnesses claimed Thomas “seemed to be struggling whereas dragging the blue tarp down the steps” earlier than “loading the tarp into the Sufferer’s car.”

Blood on the scene additionally matched the sufferer’s DNA profile, in response to officers.

Thomas was arrested on the Louisiana warrant in Texas on October 1; the homicide cost was added on Wednesday evening. He is nonetheless being held on the Dallas County Jail, awaiting an extradition listening to.

As for any prior connection between the sufferer and suspect, the sheriff’s workplace reportedly stated the connection and motive “are nonetheless beneath investigation.” They added, “Right now, there is no such thing as a proof to counsel that Thomas was a shopper of Abraham.”

Per Abraham’s web site, he had “greater than 30 years expertise in treating substance abuse, despair and anxiousness, he gives psychotherapy, steering and psycho-education to {couples}, people, adolescents and households.”