Thomas Johnson, Former Texas A&M WR, to Be Charged with Murder | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
Authorities in Dallas have arrested Thomas Linze Johnson, a former member of the Texas A&M football team, on suspicion of murder after he allegedly stabbed a jogger to death Monday morning, per Tristan Hallman of the Dallas Morning News.
Hallman posted a photo of the crime scene:
Tristan Hallman @TristanHallmanPolice still out at crime scene on White Rock Creek trail. Several layers of tape out here.
"It appears that Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random. It's absolutely random," Dallas police Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said in a press conference, per Jeff Smith and Frank Heinz of NBC 5 in Dallas-Fort Worth. "He just attacked him. He told our homicide detectives that he was angry about a situation and he just picked somebody to murder. I believe there's more to that story. It's just very unusual. It's quite shocking."
Johnson, 21, only played one season with the Aggies, leaving the school in December 2012. Roughly a month earlier, he had gone missing from the A&M campus in mysterious circumstances only to be found in Dallas three days after his disappearance.
In April 2014, his mother, Linda Hanks, told Brent Zwerneman of the San Antonio Express-News that Johnson was working on a comeback to the football field.
