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Instagram model Courtney Clenney charged with murdering boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli in Florida apartment - CBS News

Instagram model Courtney Clenney charged with murdering boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli in Florida apartment - CBS News

Instagram model Courtney Clenney charged with murdering boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli in Florida apartment - CBS News
Aug 12, 2022 1 min, 48 secs

Social media model Courtney Clenney has been charged with second-degree murder over the April death of her boyfriend, Christian Toby Obumseli, Miami State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Thursday.

Rundle also showed a video from a building elevator in February 2022 that appeared to show Clenney shoving and hitting Obumseli.

Rundle said that the couple briefly separated when Clenney kicked Obumseli out of her apartment in late March, but he returned on April 1.

Police were called to the apartment later that day, and Clenney appeared "intoxicated" at the time, Rundle said. .

Clenney called her mother at 4:43 and spoke for six minutes, and called her again at 4:49 and spoke for seven minutes, Rundle said.

Rundle said Obumseli can be heard saying that he was dying and losing feeling in his arm on her 911 call, and that Clenney was heard saying "I'm so sorry." When police arrived, Clenney was cradling Obumseli's body, according to her arrest warrant.

Clenney later told police she had stabbed Obumseli after he grabbed her by the throat and shoved her against the wall, Rundle said.

But Rundle said police did not find any evidence that Clenney had been harmed and said the medical examiner disputed her account of the incident, noting that Obumseli's injury was much more consistent with a "downward strike" with the knife than with a throw from such a far distance.

"The violent and toxic two-year relationship of Christian Obumseli and Courtney Clenney did not have to end in tragedy with Christian's murder as a victim of domestic violence," Rundle said.

In a recorded telephone statement to police documented in the arrest warrant, Clenney's mother allegedly told authorities that she heard Clenney telling Obumseli to leave and Clenney saying that Obumseli was "lying." Her mother did not say anything about her daughter being attacked, the warrant said, and while she allegedly told investigators that she had not discussed Obumseli's death with her daughter, the warrant cited a 5:25 p.m.

Toby was raised with a, by a very strong family with strong morals, strong values, he does not come from that," said Karen Egbuna, a cousin of Obumseli who also appeared at the press conference

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