Newly launched video exhibits an OnlyFans mannequin asking Miami police for a restraining order in opposition to her boyfriend, days earlier than authorities stated she fatally stabbed him of their luxurious high-rise house.
The mannequin, Courtney Clenney, is seen within the police physique digital camera video talking with three cops within the foyer of her constructing.
“I need a restraining order in opposition to Christian Obumseli. No, I am severe,” she says within the video, which was launched by the Miami-Dade State Legal professional’s Workplace.
When an officer explains that she has to hunt one from the courtroom, she responds: “OK, however how can I make myself first? As a result of I do know him, and he would do it.”
Police have been known as to the constructing by an worker who stated that Obumseli charged at Clenney.
“We get right down to the foyer space, her boyfriend comes charging towards her and we really attempt getting in the course of it,” the worker says, including that police had been known as on the couple earlier than and so they have been within the technique of being evicted.
At one level within the video, Clenney seems to cry as she talks about getting kicked out of her house.
The footage ends with police strolling Clenney to her house and telling her that there’s nothing they’ll do as a result of Obumseli lives on the residence.
Two days later, on April 3, Obumseli was stabbed to dying within the couple’s house. He was pronounced useless at a neighborhood hospital.
The State Legal professional’s Workplace additionally launched Clenney’s 911 name. Investigators have stated that Clenney made two cellphone calls across the time of the stabbing, together with one to her mom, earlier than she known as 911. Neighbors had additionally alerted safety, who in flip known as the police, after listening to a disturbance within the couple’s house.
Within the audio, Obumseli is heard within the background repeatedly saying that he couldn’t really feel his arms. Clenney apologizes to him and tells the operator that her “boyfriend is dying of a stab wound.”
The decision turns chaotic when Clenney begins screaming incoherently after which stops answering the operator’s questions earlier than the decision disconnects.
Frank Prieto, an lawyer for Clenney, has stated that she was a sufferer of home violence and acted in self-defense. He stated the video exhibits Clenney was in search of assist “from an abusive and violent relationship,” in accordance with NBC Miami.
“It seems that the responding officers may have dealt with Courtney’s appeals for help with extra sensitivity and an understanding that many victims of home violence are hesitant to return ahead and have the police arrest their abuser,” he stated in an announcement.
However Miami-Dade State Legal professional Katherine Fernandez Rundle stated Clenney was the aggressor within the couple’s tumultuous relationship, which started in November 2020.
Rundle described the connection as “extraordinarily tempestuous and combative” and stated that Clenney had kicked Obumseli out of the house in March earlier than they seemingly reconciled two days earlier than his dying. She additionally recounted a separate video from February that appeared to point out Clenney initiating a bodily assault on Obumseli throughout an argument. It’s unclear what occurred earlier than the couple walked into the elevator.
“You’ll draw your individual conclusion, nevertheless it actually seems that the defendant was aggressively attacking Christian,” Rundle stated at a information briefing.
Clenney, who appeared on OnlyFans beneath the title Courtney Tailor and has 2 million followers on Instagram, was arrested in August in Hawaii whereas she was in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress dysfunction. She was charged with second-degree homicide with a lethal weapon and is being held with out bond in a Miami-Dade jail as she awaits trial.
