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Minutes after Courtney Clenney allegedly murdered Christian Obumseli inside their Twenty second-floor condominium in April, the OnlyFans influencer frantically referred to as Miami police for assist.
“My boyfriend is dying of a stab wound!” Clenney is heard saying within the 911 name, a duplicate of which was obtained by The Day by day Beast. She can also be heard apologizing as canines bark within the background.
“Please God, please. Come save my boyfriend,” she provides.
Within the background, Obumseli could be heard screaming at one level: “I’m going to die. I can’t really feel my arms. I can’t really feel my arms.”
The April 3 name got here after prosecutors say the 26-year-old Instagram influencer stabbed Obumseli, 27, within the coronary heart on the One Paraiso luxurious advanced. Clenney was charged in August with second-degree homicide after she allegedly advised police that she had thrown a knife at Obumseli when he was 10 ft away throughout an argument.
Clenney’s protection legal professional, Frank Prieto, advised The Day by day Beast on Wednesday that “the 911 name that Courtney made to get assist for Obumseli captures the chaos, confusion, and uncooked emotion Courtney skilled after she was pressured to defend herself.”
“The audio of Courtney’s name to 911 is clearly not an request for forgiveness; it's a human and humane response to the traumatic occasions and actions she took to save lots of her life that night time,” he added. “As with many victims of home violence, Courtney allowed her abuser again into her condominium regardless of understanding their relationship was poisonous; nevertheless, her actions that night had been taken in protection of her personal life.”
Larry Handfield, a lawyer representing the Obsumseli household, advised the Miami Herald, which first printed the audio, that the 911 name exhibits Clenney’s “way of thinking.”
“She’s saying she’s sorry as a result of she’s realizing what she’s performed,” Handfield advised the newspaper. “She’s not saying, ‘I used to be defending myself.’”
In keeping with an arrest warrant obtained by The Day by day Beast, an post-mortem report later revealed that Obumseli suffered a “stab wound to the chest… and that the knife punctured the subclavian artery.”
The grisly incident got here after months of what prosecutors described as a risky relationship between Clenney and Obumseli. Among the many home violence incidents involving them, prosecutors mentioned, was a February 2022 struggle of their condominium constructing’s elevator, the place Clenney is seen putting Obumseli whereas he tries to ward her off.
Two days earlier than the homicide, Clenney advised police that Obumseli was “stalking” her after she broke up with him. In body-camera footage obtained by The Day by day Beast, Clenney is seen telling officers that she needed a restraining order in opposition to him—whereas additionally suggesting allegations of bodily violence in opposition to her had been “not likely a priority.”
On April 3, prosecutors say, the couple had been having a peaceable day earlier than Obumseli left to get them sandwiches within the afternoon. Round 4 p.m., the warrant states that Clenney referred to as Obumseli earlier than going stay on her Instagram.
Half an hour later, Clenney referred to as her boyfriend once more—earlier than calling her mom, who advised police she heard the pair in an argument. Clenney referred to as her mother once more at 4:49 p.m. for about seven minutes.
One minute later, the warrant states, Clenney referred to as 911, saying that Obumseli had suffered a stab wound. Within the frantic name, an emergency dispatcher is asking Clenney a number of questions whereas the mannequin and her boyfriend are screaming within the background. Within the chaotic three-minute name, Clenney could be heard saying that “he has a stab wound on his shoulder.”
“Child, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry,” she screams, earlier than telling 911 he's “bleeding from his shoulder.”
Because the dispatcher continues to ask Clenney questions, she out of the blue cuts off. “She simply stored screaming on the road that he was dying and he or she stored apologizing,” the dispatcher advised an emergency responder, in response to the decision.
The warrant states that when officers arrived on the condominium, there was “blood on the kitchen island dripping to the master suite/rest room and again to the lounge.” There was additionally a knife by the lounge sofa subsequent to a bloody bedsheet.
“There was moreover a blood path main from the lounge to the visitor room,” the warrant states. “On the entrance of the visitor bed room, there was a puddle of coagulated blood and blood switch on the wall, evidencing that the sufferer collapsed on this room earlier than making an attempt to return towards the entrance door.”
Officers discovered Obumseli in Clenney’s arms in “one other puddle of coagulated blood.” Prosecutors be aware that the quantity of blood within the condominium suggests Obumseli was “bleeding for an prolong[ed] interval earlier than police arrived.”