Blacksburg fatal shooting suspect Jamel Flint appeared in court by video on Tuesday for a brief hearing during which an attorney was appointed to represent him.
Blacksburg fatal shooting suspect Jamel Flint appeared in court by video on Tuesday for a brief hearing during which an attorney was appointed to represent him.
Isimemen Etute, 18, left, was indicted on Tuesday in the murder of 40-year-old restaurant manager Jerry Paul Smith, right. Prosecutors claim he beat Smith after discovering he was not a woman.
Virginia Tech linebacker, Ismeme Etute, 18, allegedly stomped a man to death during a Tinder date after he discovered his date had been posing as a woman named Angie.
Isimemen Etute, A Virginia Tech Recruit, Beat Tinder Date to Death After Learning He Was A Man
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A Virginia Tech football recruit is in jail facing murder charges for beating his Tinder date to death after learning he was a man and not the woman he met online.
Eighteen-year-old Isimemen Etute was a 2021 recruit on the Virginia Tech Hokies football team. But the college freshman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing 40-year-old Jerry Smith,
USA Today reports.
The young man met Smith under the name “Angie” while on the Tinder dating app. The young athlete went to Smith’s home on April 10 and received oral sex, according to the t attorney Jimmy Turk. The two engaged in sexual activity with Etute not aware of Smith’s sexual identity. Etute returned on May 31 and realized that Smith and “Angie” were the same person.