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Ex-A&M football player suspected in Dallas jogger killing

On Monday, according to Dallas police, Thomas Linze Johnson was in a rage when he attacked a jogger on the White Rock Creek Trail.

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Investigators with the Dallas Police Department are trying to find out more about a fatal stabbing that happened at White Rock Trail Park.

According to the report, Johnson, 21, used “a large, edged weapon” to kill an unidentified male jogger.

Johnson played for the Aggies in 2012.

‘It’s absolutely random. He just attacked him. “And he was repeatedly hitting it in the back of the neck”. The man has not yet been identified. “It’s very unusual. It’s quite shocking”.

Johnson was on probation, but the Dallas Morning News reported prosecutors sought his arrest for testing positive for marijuana and failing other conditions, including fee payments. Johnson would not play in the team’s final three games of the season after taking an unexplained leave of absence. He had been captured on charges of sidestepping capture, thievery of a home and auto burglary a year ago in the wake of breaking into his auntie’s home to take cash and her minivan.

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The witness said: ‘As I get closer and closer I could tell it was a machete and there are repeated blows that are occurring. But he vanished after the game, a disappearance that never was fully explained. He was a high profile recruit from Dallas’s Skyline High School and became a celebrated wide receiver for Texas A&M.

Danny Lee Knutson was arrested Monday afternoon