NBC News.That same day, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office posted to Facebook about a nearly identical traffic stop incident, along with photos of a person of interest who was allegedly the last person to have driven Abraham’s car.
The post did not name Thomas but asked for the public’s help in identifying the person in the photos.Police eventually apprehended Thomas in Dallas on charges stemming from attempting to flee from the police stop, including unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, resisting an officer, and aggravated criminal damage to property.The 20-year-old is currently awaiting extradition to Baton Rouge and is expected to face charges of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.According to an arrest report, while executing a search warrant at Thomas’s apartment, Baton Rouge homicide detectives discovered evidence of “a violent physical altercation.”Police claimed to have observed a significant amount of blood throughout the apartment, along with multiple sharp objects and other weapons.Police uncovered surveillance footage of Abraham arriving at the apartment complex where Thomas lived around 11 a.m.
on September 28. Abraham was wearing the same clothing in the surveillance footage that he was wearing when his body was discovered wrapped in a tarp on the side of the highway.Witnesses also allegedly saw Thomas dragging a tarp down the stairs of the apartment complex and loading it into Abraham’s car, according to an affidavit.Social media posts speculated that Thomas was the person of interest seen driving Abraham’s car, with numerous posts attempting to link Thomas to Abraham’s killing and others speculating on the nature of their relationship.That speculation only increased after it was revealed that Abraham had been accused of, and charged with, child molestation in 2015.An 11-year-old patient claimed that Abraham had touched him inappropriately during a therapy session.