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Virginia Tech Football Player Charged With Killing Tinder Date After Learning Match Was A Man 

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Virginia Tech Football Player Charged With Killing Tinder Date After Learning Match Was A Man 
Blacksburg Police Dept.

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.

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.

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