SEP 16, 2021
Body camera video released of police interaction with Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie after 911 call - ABC7 New York (abc7ny.com)
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The officer summarized the encounter in the report.
"The male tried to create distance by telling Gabbie to take a walk to calm down," he wrote. "She didn't want to be separated from the male, and began slapping him. He grabbed her face and pushed her back as she pressed upon him and the van."
Police said all parties agreed that Petito had slapped Laundrie and that he had not struck her, and that there were no serious injuries and no party wanted to press charges.
Petito reportedly told officers she suffers from serious anxiety and other redacted medical conditions, and police categorized the incident as a "mental/emotional health break" rather than a domestic assault. Petito told police that the arguments between the couple had been building over the past couple of days.
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Garrison said
there are no plans to obtain a search warrant for his parents home, where the two lived. "We don't have a crime in this. We are investigating a missing person."
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