Former Virginia Tech football player acquitted of murdering his Tinder Date is back on the field

Isimemen Etute is back on the football field! He recently was acquitted of killing a man named Jerry Smith who was impersonating a 21-year-old woman, trying to trap the football player on Tinder.

Well, Etute is back on the field.

He will be playing this fall at Iowa Western Community College according to ESPN reports.

The case was pretty serious because Smith lost his life. Etute was on trial for murdering Smith after finding out that the lady he met on Tindr was not a lady. Etute was under the assumption that he was meeting with a lady named Angie. 

Etute reportedly punched and kicked the transgender man and he would later die from the injuries. 

As he testified, Etute said he returned to Smith’s apartment with two teammates to confront him on May 31, 2021. The two teammates never went inside the apartment but Etute said while inside the apartment, something didn’t feel right. That when he said he pulled back a hoodie and realized Smith was a man.

The former football player said he was in shock, and testified he thought Smith tried to reach for something, believing it was a gun at the time. On the stand, Etute said he feared for his life, so he started to hit Smith and then left.

I wonder how it will play out, Etute is a hell of a player, so at least he is getting a second shot.