Former Texas A&M football player accused of hacking jogger to death in Dallas park

FOX News ^ | 10/13/2015

[KeyLargo]

Former Texas A&M football player accused of hacking jogger to death in Dallas park

Published October 13, 2015FoxNews.com

Oct. 12, 2015: This photo shows Thomas Johnson, a former Texas A&M wide receiver whom Dallas police say randomly attacked and killed a jogger with a 'large, edged weapon'. (Dallas Police Department)

Dallas police say a former college football player hacked a jogger to death in a Dallas park Monday morning in what authorities said appeared to be a random attack.

Police told KDFW that Thomas Johnson, 21, had admitted to carrying out the attack along the White Rock Creek Trail, and even called to report the crime shortly after it happened. Investigators said Johnson had recently been kicked out of his home and was full of rage.

"He was angry about his situation," Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin told reporters. "It’s very unusual. It’s quite shocking."

Police said Johnson used a "large-edged weapon" to carry out the attack, which took place just after 8 a.m. local time. The victim was not carrying identification, and is described as a white man in either his late-20s or early-30s.

The trail, located north of downtown Dallas, is a popular spot for joggers and bikers.

"You could tell it was a machete coming down," a witness told KDFW. "On what, I wasn't sure at first, but when I got closer I could tell it was a body. And he was repeatedly hitting it in the back of the neck."

[KeyLargo]

Apparently, white lives don't matter.

[knarf]

looks like someone I saw at the CalypsoLouie rally last week

[ladyjane]

Machete? Back of the neck? Muslim?

[KeyLargo]

"An eyewitness to the brutal killing, identified only as Brandon, told NBC 5 he was cycling along the White Rock Creek Trail at Harry Moss Park when he saw a man hacking another man with a machete where the trail passes underneath the Walnut Hill Lane overpass."

I think we have seen this behavior before somewhere...

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Leave it to the lazy and incompetent media to link this clown to being a "football player."

There are 4 things that the media will ALWAYS go out of their way to include in a story no matter how irrelevant:

Former Marine

Former football player

Former stripper

Mom (a woman that has had a child at some point in her life, even if she's 90 years old, she's be called a "Mom")

[gaijin]

Get kicked out of your house..?

Yeah, just go hack some innocent stranger to death.

That`ll clear things up.

[deport]

An earlier post if anyone is interested in reading the comments:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3348021/posts
One of Manziel’s receivers at A&M admits to killing man

[KeyLargo]

"After riding to a safe distance and warning another jogger and second bicyclist, Davenport said he called 911."I see a silhouette of a man raising a machete up over his head and down over his head," said a witness who didn't want to be named. "I probably saw six or seven blows."

[Paladin2]

Where do we go to get Politician Control?

[Paladin2]

If the vic is white, it’s not random.....

[KeyLargo]

Most likely just rehearsing for Trick or Treat and the machete just flew out of the poor black man's hand striking the jogger accidentally.....sarc

[Popman]

I wonder what his Islamic conversion name...?

[Eagles6]

Nothing to see here, move along...

[Resolute Conservative]

Had he been armed he could have taken out the trash.

[PGalt]

Whoa! Thanks for posting.

[KeyLargo]

Apparently it is time for a MACHETE BAN in Dallas.

Dallas Police Search for Robbers Using a Machete
By Ray Villeda

Dallas police say there have been at least three robberies that involved machetes within two weeks.

The first attack happened on May 12 when a man parked in his car was held up by someone with a gun in one hand and a machete in the other. That person ran off with the victim’s wallet and phone.

The second attack happened on May 20. This time, two men held up a man around 5:15 a.m. on the 7600 block of Indian Ridge Trail.

Police said one held up a gun and the other a machete to his back.

That same day, just before 6 a.m., another man was held up on the 5100 block of Mark Trail Way while he checked his mail. This time, the victim was shoved to the ground, then kicked in the head, before the robbers took off with his wallet and phone.

Police are not sure if all three attacks are related.
Published at 12:57 AM CDT on May 23, 2014

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Police-Search-for-Suspects-Using-a-Machete—260369911.html

[The_Victor]

The trail, located north of downtown Dallas, is a popular spot for joggers and bikers.

Note to the journalist....

This is a biker....

This is a cyclist....

[knarf]

And assuming the wookie is a couple of chomosomes closer to female than male ... THIS is a BI - clist

head .... ing off to ..... er ..... 'work'

(head down, eyes closed, concentrating on doing a good ... errrrrr 'job')

[PAR35]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3348021/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3347913/posts

[The_Victor]

That there is just a doofus.

I don't think I've ever seen a less coordinated man.