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TikTok star has been identified as a person of interest following the death of a Baton Rouge therapist

BATON ROUGE – Baton Rouge police officers issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for a 20-year-old man accused of fleeing police in the car of a 69-year-old therapist, whose body was wrapped in a tarp on a highway in the township Tangipahoa was found.

Terryon Ishmael Thomas is wanted for aggravated criminal damage, resisting an officer and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

On Monday, a Baton Rouge police officer attempted to stop a black Lincoln MKZ on North Sherwood Forest Boulevard. After the driver failed to comply with this request, he ran backwards into the police unit and fled the scene, the arrest warrant states.

After interviewing the officer involved, investigators identified Thomas as the driver of the car registered to therapist William Nicholas Abraham, whose body was found along U.S. 51 on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, Abraham's car was spotted at Juban Crossing in Denham Springs.

Thomas was listed as a person of interest in the case and images of him were shared by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office.

Baton Rouge Police confirmed that Thomas went by the name “Mr. Prada” wears.

You can find the entire arrest warrant here.