A suspended Division I college football player was indicted on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday for allegedly killing a man he mistook for a woman after meeting for sex.
Virginia Tech linebacker Isimemen Etute, 18, will be tried in the Montgomery County Circuit Court after a grand jury returned a true bill regarding the case, a report said.
The Virginia Tech freshman was initially arrested in May for the killing of 40-year-old Jerry Smith, according to court documents.
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Etute met Smith through the dating app Tinder. They got together on April 10 and engaged in oral sex, attorneys said.
Etute believed he had met with a woman because Smith represented himself as a woman called “Angie” on Tinder, according to a statement.
A month after their encounter, Etute went to Smith’s Blacksburg home to determine if he had engaged sexually with a man or woman, attorneys and witnesses said.
On May 31, the football player “groped” Smith to ascertain his gender and used the flashlight on his phone to get a look at the middle-aged restaurant project manager, a detective testified.
After this, Etute allegedly began beating Smith and purportedly told authorities that he heard a “bubbling and gurgling noise” when he exited the apartment, the report said.
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Etute is scheduled for a Nov. 18 hearing for attorneys to develop a timeline for the case, according to the report.
