FORT MYERS, Fla. - A former University of Florida football player, Earl Antonio “Tony” Joiner, has been arrested and charged with killing his wife in a case dating to 2016, police said. A former safety at Florida under then-Coach Urban Meyer, Joiner was arrested Saturday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of wife Heyzel Obando, the Fort Myers Police Department said in a statement. The body of Joiner’s 26-year-old wife was discovered in an apartment on Feb. 14, 2016. Fort Myers Police said in the statement released on social media that investigators had worked closely with the state’s attorney’s office and with the Oxygen Television series “Cold Justice” on the case. The statement added that Joiner was taken into custody Saturday in Lake Wales in central Florida in a co-ordinate effort with the Lake Wales Police Department and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Source: thestar June 09, 2019 22:30 UTC