TikTok personality named as suspect in death of therapist found wrapped in tarp off side of Louisiana highway

A TikTok characteristic pinch much than 4 cardinal followers has been named arsenic a personification of liking successful nan decease of a beloved therapist whose assemblage was recovered wrapped successful a tarp connected nan broadside of a Louisiana highway.

A passerby had noticed nan suspicious tarp rolled connected nan broadside of Highway 51 conscionable earlier 8am connected Sunday and alerted nan Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office, Fox 8 Live reports.

Deputies who arrived connected nan segment past recovered nan assemblage of well-known therapist and motivational speaker William Nicholas Abraham, 69, wrong nan tarp.

Just 1 time later, a Baton Rouge constabulary serviceman spotted 20-year-old Terryon Ishmael Thomas - amended known online arsenic Mr. Prada - driving Abraham's achromatic Lincoln MKZ, according to an apprehension warrant obtained by WBRZ.

It said Thomas refused to obey arsenic nan serviceman attempted to behaviour a postulation extremity - and alternatively backed into nan constabulary conveyance and fled connected ft while officers recovered nan victim's vehicle.

The fishy was later captured connected a adjacent store's surveillance cameras, which constabulary released Monday nighttime arsenic he remained connected nan loose.

Thomas is now wanted for aggravated criminal harm to property, resisting an serviceman and unauthorized usage of a centrifugal vehicle.

He has not been charged successful nan therapist's death, which authorities opportunity was caused by blunt unit trauma.

'It was a very beingness and very convulsive attack,' Tangipahoa Sheriff Gerald Sticker said, according to WAFB.

'He was bludgeoned astir successful nan head, shoulders and neck. There was a batch of bruising.'

A motive for nan execution remains unclear, but East Baton Rouge Parish tribunal records obtained by WWL show Abraham was antecedently arrested successful 2015 for allegedly inappropriately rubbing an 11-year-old boy during a therapy session.

Abraham was ne'er charged successful nan incident, and Sheriff Sticker said that while he is alert of nan arrest, he is focusing connected locating wherever nan therapist - who had a regular show connected Baton Rouge tv - was killed.

'Right now we person nary inclination arsenic to wherever this originated,' nan sheriff said.

He noted that location were nary weapons recovered connected nan broadside of nan road wherever his assemblage was dumped, and a search of nan victim's location successful East Baton Rouge Parish besides recovered nary indications that a crime had been committed there.

The sheriff's agency is now seeking 'any accusation that nan nationalist tin springiness america to thief america put nan image together of Saturday... evening, earlier he was yet murdered - which we judge occurred sometime Saturday night,' Sticker said.

Abraham's friends and family are besides demanding answers.

'I want to cognize who did it and I want to cognize why,' his brother, Tommy Abraham, told WBRZ. 

'I watch nan news each nighttime and I conscionable beryllium backmost location and cringe erstwhile I perceive personification killed somebody,' he said. 'It's conscionable not nan measurement it's expected to be.'

'No 1 should return a life but God. No one,' Tommy added to WWL. 'He's nan only 1 that tin return a life, and for personification to return personification else's life, you're a coward.' 

He and his brother, Joseph, said Abraham had worked arsenic a Catholic leader for 14 years, serving successful Mississippi and Milwaukee, earlier yet becoming a therapist.

Abraham besides doubled arsenic a life coach, 'motivational speaker, signaling artist, author, coach and trailblazer,' according to his website, which notes that he had acquisition treating constituent abuse, worry and slump and worked pinch nan LGBTQ community.

'He made a people connected people's lives and helped them beryllium amended people,' Joseph said.

'He was kind, loving, a gentle man and frankly not nan benignant of man that thing for illustration this would've happened to,' added Abraham's attorney, Jarret Ambeau.

'I'm perfectly devastated and wholly amazed that thing for illustration that could've happened to a man who I judge to beryllium truthful tender and truthful gentle and person specified a work heart.'