{"id":567894,"date":"2021-06-18T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567894"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:22:23","slug":"virginia-tech-football-player-charged-with-killing-tinder-date-after-learning-match-was-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-tech-football-player-charged-with-killing-tinder-date-after-learning-match-was-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Football Player Charged With Killing Tinder Date After Learning Match Was A Man\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-tech-football-player-charged-with-killing-tinder-date-after-learning-match-was-a-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-11.57.02-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Virginia Tech freshman football player has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a 40-year-old man who apparently misled about being a male when the pair matched on hook-up site Tinder.<\/p>\n<p>Isimemen Etute, 18, matched with Jerry Smith on the site and went to his apartment. When the athlete found out Smith was a man, he allegedly beat him before leaving on May 31, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who <a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/family-of-blacksburg-homicide-victim-trying-to-come-to-terms-with-his-death\/article_7162ff38-c56e-11eb-afe7-37f18a5935c4.html\">according<\/a> to his family is a physically small, openly gay man, died of blunt force trauma.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/nation-world\/virginia-tech-player-killed-tinder-match-after-learning-match-was-a-man-police-say\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16.831168831169\">\n<p><em>Etute said he visited Smith\u2019s apartment in April after he was matched with someone named \u201cAngie\u201d on Tinder, but when he returned on May 31, he discovered his match was a man, prosecutors said during a hearing Wednesday, citing police statements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Etute told police he punched and stomped Smith and heard gurgling as he left, but didn\u2019t call police.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The medical examiner\u2019s office had previously revealed that Smith died from <a class=\"themeColorForLinks\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/richmond-fbi-assisting-blacksburg-police-in-virginia-tech-football-murder\" href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/richmond-fbi-assisting-blacksburg-police-in-virginia-tech-football-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blunt force trauma to the head<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Etute was granted bond last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors initially filed an expedited appeal that would have kept the 18-year-old from Virginia Beach in jail for up to five more days but agreed to his release once the two sides settled on conditions,\u201d according to the AP report. \u201cEtute, who is charged with second-degree murder in the <a class=\"themeColorForLinks\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/1-dead-another-in-custody-following-homicide-in-blacksburg\" href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/1-dead-another-in-custody-following-homicide-in-blacksburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death of 40-year-old Jerry Smith<\/a>, was released on a $75,000 secured bond under house arrest and electronic monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Etute has been suspended from the VaTech team while law enforcement conducts an investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"34\">\n<p>A Radford lawyer named Jimmy Turk is now representing Etute in the case, which he called \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"35.722186495177\">\n<p>\u201cTurk said that he deplored any apparent killing, but that his client seems to be an exceptional young man who came to Virginia Tech on a full scholarship and had never been a problem for anyone before,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/family-of-blacksburg-homicide-victim-trying-to-come-to-terms-with-his-death\/article_7162ff38-c56e-11eb-afe7-37f18a5935c4.html\">reported<\/a> Roanoke.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-print asset-breakout-container \" readability=\"10.966817496229\">\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"33.88\">\n<p>\u201cWe are so at a loss at everything that\u2019s going on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/family-of-blacksburg-homicide-victim-trying-to-come-to-terms-with-his-death\/article_7162ff38-c56e-11eb-afe7-37f18a5935c4.html\">said<\/a> a spokesperson for Smith\u2019s family, who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>\u201cThere are horrible stories out there. At the end of the day, no matter what he did or didn\u2019t do, nobody deserves what he got. Whatever happened gives nobody the right to react that way. I\u2019m sorry, it just doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-print asset-breakout-container \" readability=\"11.5\">\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"43\">\n<p>According to Roanoke.com, \u201cSmith has a lengthy legal history, with charges over the years in Montgomery, Loudoun and Fairfax counties, including driving under the influence, reckless driving, public intoxication and filing a false police report, as well as charges that were dismissed. But the family didn\u2019t know anything about that, the spokesperson said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-print asset-breakout-container \" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"39\">\n<p>\u201cWe know nothing,\u201d the family spokesperson reacted. \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest with you. We know nothing about that. There\u2019s been nothing said to us about it by the police or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>\u201cHe was so proud. Everybody knew he was a gay man. He did not like women. He was very proud of who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what he did, he did not deserve this,\u201d the spokesperson added. \u201cHe was maybe 112 pounds soaking wet. He wasn\u2019t a threat to nobody. He wasn\u2019t a threat to a fly. He wasn\u2019t a dangerous person. Nobody has a right to take someone\u2019s life. Whatever happened should not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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