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Thomas Eugene Abrams
By Cathleen O'TooleFirst Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- His photos are on every wall. But getting together at the studio where Thomas Eugene Abrams recorded, doesn't include his music anymore. His mother can't bear to hear it.
"I actually thought I was going to lose my mind," says Deborah Abrams, whose son was found shot to death in late February. She had reported the musician, known as "Psycho Versatile" by many, missing, days earlier.
"Actually I didn't hear the news, I actually just read everybody's face when they walked in my house. It was unusual for family members all at one time to be walking in the door," says Abrams.
JSO Homicide detective Scott Dingee says Abrams was last seen at a known drug house. It used to sit on what is now an empty lot in East Jacksonville. Dingee says after Abrams was shot in the house and days after investigators scoured it, someone burned it down.
"We've spoken to neighbors in the area that saw the car," says Dingee. But who left the 31-year-old's body in the truck of his Mercury Mystique is still very much a mystery.
Abrams' music is no mystery even though he never finished his first album. His brother put it together after his death. "It's part of his legacy," explains Gernado Abrams who is a musician, just like his big brother. Still Abrams' mother needs more, before she'll ever be comfortable listening to that legacy. "The people that took it upon their self to take his life will be put behind bars. And then they won't be out every day in the streets, enjoying their life, while my family and I are going out to evergreen cemetery, looking at a stone."
Anyone with information about this case can call our partner, First Coast Crime Stoppers, at 1-866-845-TIPS. Calls will be kept anonymous. Tipsters are eligible for an award of as much as $1,000.
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 Created: 7/2/2004 5:54:27 PM Updated: 7/7/2004 6:58:36 PM Suggest News Tips & Story Leads Submit Video & Pictures |
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