Prosecutors have announced that a popular Instagram model has been charged in second-degree murder in connection to the death her boyfriend.
Courtney Clenney (26) allegedly murdered Christian Obumseli at their Miami apartment in April.
Clenney claims Obumseli killed her in self-defense, but Clenney’s video of the couple fighting in an elevator shows that Clenney was the aggressor.
Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the prosecutor, played the elevator video shot two months prior to Obumseli’s death, while Clenney was charged at a news conference.
The couple was married “a violent and toxic two-year relationship,”Fernandez Rundle stated that the building management was planning to expel them because of their fierce arguments.
“The video, we felt, was just a very descriptive way to show what the relationship was, and who was the aggressor,” Fernandez Rundle said.
Clenney called 911 the day Obumseli was murdered.
“On that 911 call, Christian can be heard in the background repeatedly saying that he was dying. Clenney was also heard saying, ‘I’m so sorry, baby,’” Fernandez Rundle said.
Clenney, according to the prosecution, claimed she threw her knife at her boyfriend 10 feet away. But, forensic evidence seems to support this claim.
Clenney was taken into custody in Hawaii. Her lawyer claims she was being treated for substance abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder. At a Thursday hearing, Clenney looked tearful in a black tank and was wearing a white top.
Clenney won’t fight extradition.
Frank Prieto is her lawyer. He says that there is. “clear evidence of self-defense,”Obumseli is claimed to be “attacked her and choked her that evening”That Clenney “had no choice but to meet force with force.”
Prieto is also known as the elevator video “irrelevant,” because it doesn’t show what happened on the night of the stabbing and said it will likely be inadmissible at the trial.