diff --git a/.env.dev b/.env.dev
index 86b4830..3227787 100644
--- a/.env.dev
+++ b/.env.dev
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ SESSION_SECRET_KEY=my-secret-key
 
 # Path where all logs for teuthology-suite or teuthology-kill would be collected
 ARCHIVE_DIR=/archive_dir/
+PATH_TO_TEUTHOLOGY=/teuthology
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12a91a9..234b2e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@ Example
         "--suite-repo": "https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ci.git",
         "--teuthology-branch": "main",
         "--verbose": "1",
-        "--user": "example"
+        "<config_yaml>": ["/teuthology/containerized_node.yaml"]
+        "--owner": "example",
      }'
 
-Note: "--user" in data body should be same as your github username (case sensitive). Otherwise, you wouldn't have permission to kill jobs/run.
+Note: "--owner" in data body should be same as your github username (case sensitive). Otherwise, you wouldn't have permission to kill jobs/run.
 
 xxx
diff --git a/src/teuthology_api/config.py b/src/teuthology_api/config.py
index 377a2c6..7d0829c 100644
--- a/src/teuthology_api/config.py
+++ b/src/teuthology_api/config.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class APISettings(BaseSettings):
 
     session_secret_key: str = ""
     archive_dir: str = ""
+    path_to_teuthology: str = ""
 
     model_config = SettingsConfigDict(
         env_file=".env", env_file_encoding="utf-8", extra="ignore"
diff --git a/src/teuthology_api/routes/kill.py b/src/teuthology_api/routes/kill.py
index 9062f7e..472bde0 100644
--- a/src/teuthology_api/routes/kill.py
+++ b/src/teuthology_api/routes/kill.py
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ def create_run(
     or else it will SyntaxError: non-dafault
     argument follows default argument error.
     """
-    args = args.model_dump(by_alias=True)
+    args = args.model_dump(by_alias=True, exclude_unset=True)
     return run(args, logs, access_token, request)
diff --git a/src/teuthology_api/routes/suite.py b/src/teuthology_api/routes/suite.py
index 8233ecf..ab97e9a 100644
--- a/src/teuthology_api/routes/suite.py
+++ b/src/teuthology_api/routes/suite.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import logging
 
-from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, Depends
+from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, Depends, Request
 
 from teuthology_api.services.suite import run
-from teuthology_api.services.helpers import get_token
+from teuthology_api.services.helpers import get_token, get_username
 from teuthology_api.schemas.suite import SuiteArgs
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
 
 @router.post("/", status_code=200)
 def create_run(
+    request: Request,
     args: SuiteArgs,
     access_token: str = Depends(get_token),
     dry_run: bool = False,
     logs: bool = False,
 ):
     args = args.model_dump(by_alias=True)
+    args["--user"] = get_username(request)
     return run(args, dry_run, logs, access_token)
diff --git a/src/teuthology_api/schemas/base.py b/src/teuthology_api/schemas/base.py
index 5a624fa..791aa11 100644
--- a/src/teuthology_api/schemas/base.py
+++ b/src/teuthology_api/schemas/base.py
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ class BaseArgs(BaseModel):
     non_interactive: Union[bool, None] = Field(default=False, alias="--non-interactive")
     verbose: Union[int, None] = Field(default=1, alias="--verbose")
     help: Union[bool, None] = Field(default=False, alias="--help")
-    user: str = Field(alias="--user", description="Sepia username")
diff --git a/src/teuthology_api/services/kill.py b/src/teuthology_api/services/kill.py
index aa1b157..bf219b9 100644
--- a/src/teuthology_api/services/kill.py
+++ b/src/teuthology_api/services/kill.py
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-import teuthology.kill
 import logging
+import subprocess
 
 from fastapi import HTTPException, Request
 
-from teuthology_api.services.helpers import logs_run, get_username, get_run_details
+from teuthology_api.config import settings
+from teuthology_api.services.helpers import get_username, get_run_details
 
 
+PATH_TO_TEUTHOLOGY = settings.path_to_teuthology
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -39,11 +41,23 @@ def run(args, send_logs: bool, access_token: str, request: Request):
             status_code=401, detail="You don't have permission to kill this run/job"
         )
     try:
+        kill_cmd = [f"{PATH_TO_TEUTHOLOGY}/virtualenv/bin/teuthology-kill"]
+        for (flag, flag_value) in args.items():
+            if isinstance(flag_value, bool):
+                flag_value = int(flag_value)
+            kill_cmd += [flag, str(flag_value)]
+        log.info(kill_cmd)
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(
+            kill_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT
+        )
+        stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()
+        returncode = proc.wait()
+        if returncode != 0:
+            log.info(stdout)
+            raise Exception(stdout)
         if send_logs:
-            logs = logs_run(teuthology.kill.main, args)
-            return {"logs": logs}
-        teuthology.kill.main(args)
+            return {"kill": "success", "logs": stdout}
         return {"kill": "success"}
     except Exception as exc:
-        log.error("teuthology.kill.main failed with the error: %s", repr(exc))
+        log.error("teuthology-kill command failed with the error: %s", repr(exc))
         raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=repr(exc)) from exc