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A freshman Virginia technical linebacker faced with murder told authorities the guy fatally beat one — splitting every bone in his face — for catfishing your on Tinder, prosecutors mentioned.
Ismemen David Etute, 18, told cops the guy decided to go to the Blacksburg suite of 40-year-old Jerry Smith in April for oral sex after complimentary up with anybody named “Angie” on Tinder, the Roanoke era reported.
Etute then gone back to the apartment may 31 for another meet-up, from which point he found the individual he had harmonized using this times got male, based on Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jason Morgan, citing facts the now-suspended linebacker told police.
Etute told investigators the guy punched Smith five times inside face and “stomped” on your, but performedn’t name police despite hearing “bubbling and gurgling” from the sufferer while he left the apartment. Cops discover the severely beaten man’s human body 1 day afterwards, the newspaper reported.
The linebacker’s moms and dads and cousin went to Wednesday’s hearing, and additionally several Virginia technology sports people, almost all of who comprise using team gear, based on the report.
An autopsy expose Smith, a restaurant individual, died from blunt power upheaval to your head. All the limbs within his face happened to be busted with his teeth had been additionally missing out on, the Roanoke occasions reported.
Ismemen Etute sometimes appears on a Fox 46 broadcast. Fox 46
Etute, who’s faced with second-degree kill, was actually arrested on Summer 2. Their attorney, Jimmy Turk, advised a judge the case ended up being “more than someone only displaying to an apartment and punching anybody.”