MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors in South Florida introduced a second-degree homicide cost Thursday towards social media mannequin Courtney Clenney in reference to the deadly stabbing of her live-in boyfriend.
Miami-Dade State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle introduced the cost towards the 26-year-old mannequin throughout a information convention. Clenney was arrested Wednesday in Hawaii. Fernandez Rundle stated Clenney, who goes by the identify Courtney Tailor on such platforms as Instagram and OnlyFans, remained jailed in Hawaii whereas authorities search her extradition to Florida.
She appeared in a courtroom on Hawaii’s Large Island Thursday, the place she waived her proper to an extradition listening to and agreed to return to Florida.
Choose Henry Nakamoto ordered her held with out bail pending extradition.
Fernandez Rundle characterised Christian Obumseli’s April 3 dying on the couple’s Miami house because the end result of a “tempestuous and combative relationship” that started in November 2020. The county medical expert stated in an post-mortem report that Obumseli, who labored in cryptocurrency, died from a forceful downward thrust from a blade that went 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) into his chest, piercing a serious artery.
In response to an arrest report, Clenney acknowledged killing Obumseli however stated she acted in self protection. She stated Obumseli had pushed her and thrown her to the ground, which prompted her to seize a knife and throw it at Obumseli from about 10 toes (3 meters) away. The medical expert stated Obumseli’s wound couldn’t have been brought on by a knife thrown from that distance.
Clenney’s Miami protection lawyer, Frank Prieto, stated the medical expert’s opinions received’t stand as much as scientific scrutiny after they argue self-defense at trial. He acknowledged that Clenney and Obumseli had a tumultuous relationship however stated Obumseli was the first aggressor.
“Obumseli was the abuser, the worst type of abuser,” Prieto stated in a press release. “He would manipulate and abuse Courtney in personal when he thought no person was round.”
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