American OnlyFans and Instagram model Courtney Clenney, who stabbed her boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli to death in Miami, United States in April has been arrested and will be charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon for the stabbing of Obumseli on April 3, 2022.
Miami State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle on Thursday said the 26-year-old Clenney was detained on Wednesday in Hawaii and will be extradited to Miami-Dade County to face trial.
At a press conference Tuesday, Rundle described an “extremely tempestuous and combative relationship” between the couple that began in November 2020. According to Clenney’s arrest warrant, there had been “multiple incidents of domestic violence from both sides” during the relationship.
Speaking on Clenney’s behalf, her Miami defence lawyer, Frank Prieto, said she had been in Hawaii while in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I’m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged. We look forward to clearing her name in court,” Prieto said.
The arrest caps a four-month investigation by Miami police homicide detectives and prosecutors into Clenney, whose killing of her boyfriend during a domestic row in a luxury Edgewater apartment garnered headlines across the world.
Clenney’s defence attorney insisted that she acted in self-defence and the killing was justified.
But in the days after his death, Obumseli’s relatives called for Clenney’s arrest, saying they did not believe he was ever a threat.