A former Virginia Tech football player was acquitted Friday in the 2021 beating death of a man he says he thought was a woman.
The Roanoke Times reported that jurors deliberated for about three hours before finding Isimemen Etute not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Jerry Paul Smith.
Etute testified that he and Smith, who posed as a woman named"Angie," met on the dating app Tinder, and on April 10, Etute went to Smith's apartment and they had a sexual encounter.Etute told the jurors he went back to Smith's apartment on May 31 to see if Smith was lying about his gender.Thinking Smith was reaching for a gun, Etute struck Smith in the face several times and punched him.
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