Clenney is tentatively scheduled for a court appearance Thursday on the Big Island, and is set to be extradited to Florida, the agency said.
Her attorney, Frank Prieto, told theMiami Heraldthat Clenney was in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in Hawaii.
“I’m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged,” Prieto told the newspaper. “We look forward to clearing her name in court.”
Obumseli, 27, was found stabbed inside a luxury condo at the One Paraiso Residences on the afternoon of April 3.
“The preliminary investigation determined that both Mr. Obumseli and the female had been involved in a physical altercation,” police said in the statement, which refers to the attack as a “domestic violence incident.”
Prieto identified Clenney as the unnamed woman to local media outlets, but asserted at the time that she did not commit a crime because she was a victim of domestic violence acting out of self-defense.
“This is a tragedy for all involved but it was not criminal conduct,“he told theMiami Herald. “Courtney was defending herself and the investigation will reveal exactly that.”
Obumseli’s family has maintained that their soft-spoken loved one could not have been responsible.
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The couple, who had been together for about two years, had recently moved to Florida from Austin where they had a history of domestic incidents, the newspaper reports.
Clenney was arrested for domestic battery in Las Vegas, and police had been called to their home in Austin, per theMiami Herald.
source: people.com
