A Louisiana-based mental health therapist was seen entering the apartment of 20-year-old TikTok personality “Mr. Prada” before he was killed.
Terryon Thomas was arrested in Dallas County, Texas, on Sept. 30. He is awaiting extradition back to Baton Rouge.
Thomas is believed to be the last person to see 69-year-old William Nicholas “Nick” Abraham alive.
The doctor’s body was found wrapped in a tarp along a Louisiana highway on Sunday, Sept. 29. Police believe his body was dumped there on Saturday, Sept. 28.
An autopsy revealed Abraham was beaten to death with a blunt object. He suffered fatal injuries to the head and neck during the attack.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker described the homicide as a “very physical, very violent death.”
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An investigation determined Abraham was killed inside Thomas’s apartment on Mancuso Lane in Baton Rouge. Abraham was observed on surveillance video entering the apartment around 11 a.m. on Saturday.
The next day, Abraham’s body was found in a ditch along Highway 51 near the Village of Tangipahoa. His body was clad in the same clothes he had on when he arrived at Thomas’ apartment.
A gray comforter was duct-taped around Abraham’s body, with his head covered in a dark towel.
Police found a “significant amount of blood”, along with “multiple sharp objects and other weapons” inside Thomas’s apartment.
Investigators said Thomas tried to clean up the scene and threw away additional evidence in a dumpster.
Neighbors reported seeing Thomas dragging the blue tarp hours after Abraham arrived. He appeared to be struggling while dragging the heavy object down the stairs. Thomas then loaded the tarp into Abraham’s vehicle, according to the arrest warrant.
Police released surveillance images of a man believed to be Thomas fleeing the scene in the victim’s car.
Sheriff Sticker said there is no evidence that Thomas was a patient of Abraham’s.
In 2015, Abraham was accused of molesting an 11-year-old boy during a counseling session, WAFB reported.
The boy was so upset that he told his parents he “never wanted to see [Abraham] again.”
Abraham was arrested, but he was released on $25,000 bond and the charges were eventually dropped. He was allowed to continue counseling young patients despite the allegations.
“While there was probable cause for an arrest, my office had to determine if the evidence supported our burden at trial which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” District Attorney Hillar Moore told WAFB this week.
“This matter was under review by my office for approximately two years. After considering all available evidence, the best interest of the child, and the lack of any inculpatory statements by the arrestee, we declined to institute formal charges,” Moore added.
Abraham’s former attorney, Jarrett Ambeau, denied TikTok rumors that Thomas was the 11-year-old accuser. Thomas would have been 11 years old at the time of Abraham’s arrest.
“It’s unequivocally not him,” Ambeau told WAFB on Wednesday.
Thomas has 8.2 million followers across several TikTok accounts. His main TikTok account has over 4 million followers.
Last year Thomas recorded a TikTok video that read “practicing for my mug shot cuz this might be the year someone gonna meet God if they piss me off too much.”
