Tony Joiner is an American former captain of the University of Florida football team. He had served as a team captain for the Florida Gator from 2007 to 2009. He later had played 47 games for the team making outstanding him in his junior and senior years. In 2006, he became the key player in the National Championship team.
Unfortunately, his career had a stop after he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder for the murder of Heyzel Obando in 2016. However, at the time of the incident, no convicts were arrested. But after digging up the case in the television series Cold Justice, the investigators held Tony in charge of murdering Heyzel.
Caption: The former football player, Tony Joiner.
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The former football player was born in the year 1986 as Earl Antonio Joiner in Florida, the United States of America. He has not provided information on his parents or siblings in the media. Further, he has a nationality of American and belongs to unknown mixed ethnicity. Regarding her education, he joined the University of Florida after completing his high school studies.
Moreover, he might have started to play football from his high school days but no information on this. In 2004, he played as a safety after joining the Florida team till 2007. In between, he became a key part of the national championship team. During his final years, he finished with 64 tackles where he served as a captain of the team.
From 2007 to 2009, he played for the Florida Gators, and later he went on to join the NFL’s New England Patriots. Other than this, there is not much information on his further career.
As mentioned earlier, he had married his girlfriend turned wife Heyzel Obando after dating for several years. However, there is no exact information of their dating history or marriage date. But their marriage didn’t go last since his wife was found dead in their apartment on Valentine’s Day in 2016. From their marriage, they have welcomed two children whose custody later went to Heyzel’s mother in 2017.
According to investigators’ reports, her death was a result of domestic battery. Further, reports say that the duo had a toxic relationship where Joiner abuse his late wife physically and emotionally. At the time, he had gone to police custody several times for domestic violence charges for beating up his wife.
However, the police had arrested the footballer after three years in 2019 of the incident following the deep research on the television series Cold Justice. Later the court ordered him to serve in the Polk County Jail without bond and then transferred to the Lee County Jail after his first hearing. It is believed that he is currently serving at the jail.
Caption: Tony Joiner was arrested for the murder of his wife Heyzel.
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He might have earned a hefty amount from his career as a football player. Therefore, he had an estimated net worth of around $2 million. However, he was forced to stop his playing career due to his arrest in 2019 for the murder of his wife. As of now,
It seems that he is not active over different social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Maybe he does not prefer to flaunt his lifestyle through these social media networking sites.
He has an average athletic body that stands 6 feet 3 inches or 1.90 meters and weighs around 90kg. His body has measurements of 41 inches chest size, 34 inches waist size, and 35 inches hips size respectively. He has dark brown eyes color and black hair color.
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