New footage shows Gabrielle 'Gabby' Petito telling police fiancé hit her during dispute
The network cited additional bodycam footage from a responding officer from August which it said provides further insight into the couple's troubles.
Petito's fiancé, whom police had sought in connection with her death during their cross-country road trip, was charged last week with fraudulently using her bank debit card. Petito and Laundrie embarked on their trip in June in her van, posting videos along the way on social media. A search warrant was issued for Laundrie, 23, after a grand jury in Wyoming indicted him on a single count of unlawfully using the card and Petito's personal identification number. He was not charged in her death.The latest footage from August, obtained by CNN, provided a glimpse into the troubles between Petito and Laundrie. The video is more than 52 minutes long and includes Petito telling officers that while Laundrie had hit her, she hit him first, CNN reported.
"Well, he like grabbed my face, like, I guess... He didn't, like, hit me in the face. He didn't, like, punch me in the face or anything," Petito tells the officer in the footage."Well he, like, grabbed me with his nail, and I guess that's why it looks... definitely I was cut right here [points to cheek] because I can feel it. When I touch it, it burns," Petito says.
Police classified the incident as"disorderly conduct" and a"mental health crisis" rather than domestic violence, but determined Petito was the aggressor.Police in Utah stopped the couple's van on 12 August after receiving a complaint about a domestic disturbance. The hour-long roadside encounter, in which the two were questioned separately, did not result in charges against either of them. Police had earlier released a separate video of the encounter as well.
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