On Aug. 11, sexy model, 26-year-old Courtney Clenney Courtney Colleini, who was very active on social media and amassed more than two million followers, was arrested for second-degree homicide.
Four months ago, she stabbed her two-year boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, 27, to death.
After Courtney's arrest, Christian's brother spoke up: "Miami police have finally arrested my brother's killer on homicidal charges, and although the arrest was delayed by 129 days, at least it brought us one step closer to justice." ”
On April 3, Courtney had a verbal altercation with her boyfriend in a luxury apartment in Miami, and after the conflict escalated, she stabbed Christian in the back with a knife, causing the other party to lose too much blood and finally died tragically.
When questioned at the police station, Courtney insisted that she was justified in self-defense because she was strangled by the neck during an argument with her boyfriend and had to do it.
In this way, she was quickly released by the police that night, and the investigation was delayed until August.
Until last week, prosecutors in Miami announced that Courtney had been formally arrested on charges of second-degree murder and released a series of supporting evidence that the two had repeatedly abused her boyfriend in the two years of dating, and that there were multiple cases.
Most notably, in February this year, Courtney was filmed in a surveillance video of her boyfriend beating her boyfriend in the apartment elevator. In the picture, Courtney is very grumpy from the moment she enters the elevator, yelling and screaming at the same time constantly slapping the elevator button screen.
As soon as Christian entered the elevator, she immediately stepped forward and punched and began to pull the other person's hair.
Christie was more restrained and spent most of her time avoiding each other.
When fighting back, it is only to push off and block the opponent's attack with the arm.
Prosecutors said at a press conference that made the images public, in addition to the images of Courtney's violence inside the elevator that she was photographed before the killing, investigators also found police records of a series of personal out-of-control behaviors that began in 2015.
Meanwhile, Christian's family has publicly stated that Courtney was able to escape arrest for 129 days in the case of an apparent intentional homicide because she was a "rich white woman" who would never have been handled that way if the identities of the two parties had been reversed.
But on the other hand, netizens pulled out the tweets that Christian had once sent that discriminated against black women, believing that he had such an ending, which was also self-inflicted.
So, what exactly happened?
Let's start with a brief introduction to both sides. Courtney, 26, is a Sexy Texas-born model who is worth around $2.5 million.
Christian, 27, born in Texas, started his own media company after graduating from college and is a successful businessman.
The two began to communicate after meeting through a party of mutual friends, and sent many photos of show affection every day.
It can be seen that the economic conditions on both sides are good.
But love is all appearances, and the two have been in contact for nearly two years and have been in constant conflict. At a press conference, prosecutors in Miami made public a series of crimes that Courtney had committed.
Before Courtney and Christian began dating, they had a number of criminal records:
In 2015, there was a public drunken loss of control in California.
In 2018, she was driving in Texas and had a car accident with another car, and the other party accused her of injury, property damage, vehicle destruction, and finally she lost money outside the court.
In September 2020, he was arrested again in Texas for a car accident, this time for drunk driving. She was released after paying $8,000 bail and promised to install alcohol detectors on the car as requested by police.
In November 2020, Courtney and Christian began dating.
In the past two years, many police records have been left again.
In the early days of their relationship, the two lived together in a luxury apartment in Austin, Texas. Neighbors heard the two arguing fiercely on more than one occasion.
A neighbour who lived downstairs told reporters: "I always heard Courtney smashing cups, and once I saw her throw a painting downstairs and everyone wanted to throw them out. ”
Fast forward to July 2021, Courtney was arrested for abusing her boyfriend in a hotel room in Las Vegas. In the end, the boyfriend did not file a complaint, she paid the bail and was released.
Then, in early 2022, the two moved into a luxury apartment in Miami, where they again frequently quarreled and often alarmed neighbors to call the police. The earliest mention of Courteney beating Christian in the elevator happened in this apartment.
Friends around the two also knew their situation, and a friend named Ashely Vaughn told reporters: "Friends have seen Courtney beat her boyfriend, but they have not seen her boyfriend hit her." From our experience with them, we believe that Christian is not the kind of violent man who would make Courtney fear enough to need to defend herself with a knife. ”
But a neighbor refuted this claim: "I caught a glimpse of him throwing a punch at her, but I wasn't sure if he actually did." ”
In March 2022, the two broke up again, and Courtney let her mother stay with her for a while after kicking her boyfriend out of the house.
On April 1, the two were reunited. On the afternoon of April 3, the two had another heated argument, and at 4:57 p.m., Courtney called the police, saying that she had been strangled by her boyfriend and stabbed each other in self-defense.
The alarm recording was recorded in the background, with Christian wailing that he was bleeding too much and his arm was numb, while Courtney panicked and said sorry. By the time the police and first responders finally arrived, Christian had died of excessive blood loss.
A neighbor on the other side took photos and videos of Courtney, covered in blood, sitting on the ground with her hands handcuffed behind her back, teasing the dog:
After she was taken to the police station, the police ignored or simply did not check her past domestic violence criminal record, believed her self-defense claims and released her home.
Later, a passerby took a photo of her drinking with her father at the bar downstairs of a hotel in Miami within a few days.
Since the april case, Courtney's white influencer model identity and Christian's black identity have caused a big discussion on social media.
At the beginning, some netizens pulled out Christian's discrimination against black women in high school, believing that many black women behaved badly on TV, or white girls who liked to wear yoga pants, and the tendency to choose a mate was obvious.
Netizens commented on him: "A nigerian man disses african American women on social media for many years (he really doesn't like black women) and then bluntly shows his love and admiration for white women. Emm, you also know the old saying 'don't make a wish easily'..."
Another said: "Don't make it look like he's angry because he has a white girlfriend, it's 2022 and couples of different races are common." We are angry that when no one messes with him, he constantly despises, humiliates and mocks black women. ”
The one said: "So Christian, a black man who constantly belittled black women and exalted white women, was killed by a white woman?" What do you want black women to do? 2022, don't do it again! ”
It's really ironic that people who like white women are killed by white women, and the murderer was initially spared by the police and not arrested. But the victim's past history and values are not a reason why he "could" be brutally killed in this way.
With the exposure of more evidence last week and the news of Courtney's arrest, many netizens were very angry:
"When she was violent, he could have beaten her into pulp, but he didn't. She is low of low. ”
"She was 100 percent violent and he didn't do anything to hurt her at all. So no matter what reaction he had when she stabbed the other person, it must be similar to the elevator monitor, and finally lost his life. ”
"It's clear who's going to be held accountable. When she beat him in the elevator, he didn't fight back. To tell the truth, even if he still has a hand, I can understand. Women should not use 'femininity' and 'vulnerability' as an excuse to be violent against men who are not violent. ”
"She hit him like this in front of elevator surveillance cameras, imagine what she would do if she were at home?!"
"She's not arguing with her boyfriend, she's being violent to him!"
After the video footage came out last week, Christian's family was furious, believing that Courtney's being so slighted was a serious discrimination against black people by the police, and naturally felt that he was the perpetrator and the criminal.
According to the detailed call record given by the prosecutor last week, in fact, she called her mother two times and sent a text message 13 minutes before the police, and got her mother's reply "unless there is a lawyer present, and the investigators do not say a word" message.
Christian's brother said: "This is not a case of self-defense at all, but a case of domestic violence in which my unarmed brother was stabbed to death." For 13 minutes, she made my brother lie on the ground and bleed for 13 minutes before calling the police. ”
It was 129 days after Christian's death that his killer was formally arrested. But Courtney's lawyer told the media that Courtney was the victim of domestic violence, and the video given by the prosecution could not be counted as evidence because there was no explanation of the cause and effect.
The lawyer also added that no one knows the truth behind it, and it is necessary to justify Courtney's name and so on. He believes that Courtney has been controlled by Christian for many years, and the relationship between the two has always been very toxic and violent.
(Knife used by Courtney when she committed the crime)
Racial discrimination and white privilege, the gender of the abuser and the injured party, and the initial frivolity of the police are all the reasons for the controversy in this case.
What will be the final outcome of Courtney, presumably, will make the American people quarrel endlessly.