Two men have finally been arrested in the murder of T.I. friend/personal assistant, Philant Johnson. The case is two years old and finally seeing some justice. Police have arrested two men who are actually brothers. Hosea Thomas, 34, and Padron Thomas, 40, have been charged with murder and felonious assault in the May 3, 2006, incident, which killed Johnson, 26, and wounded three others, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
T.I. had performed a gig at the Cincinnati club Bogart's on the night of the incident. Several witnesses told the paper that tensions had mounted in the club after T.I.'s crew threw money into the audience from the stage. Police say that the Thomas brothers were present at an afterparty held at the Club Ritz, where they were allegedly involved in a series of altercations with the Atlanta rapper's entourage. Cincinnati Homicide Detective Tim Gormly told the paper that the suspects wanted to join T.I. and his group in the club's VIP area, but they were denied entrance. At some point in the night, one of the Thomas brothers was hit in the head with a bottle, Gormly said.
T.I. and his crew left the club in a pair of vans and were followed by two SUVs, police said. At 3:30 a.m. near a highway ramp close to the club, the men in the SUVs began opening fire on the rapper's entourage, killing Johnson — a lifelong friend of T.I.'s — wounding the others and causing slight injuries to T.I. from flying glass.
Each brother was charged with murder and seven counts of felonious assault — one for each person in the vehicles. Hosea Thomas was also charged with having weapons despite a previous conviction, and Padron Thomas was charged with tampering with evidence.
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