Bodycam showing Gabby Petito with bruises on her neck raises new questions as it’s ruled she was strangled
HOURS after a coroner determined Gabby Petito died by strangulation, internet sleuths are pointing to her last seen appearance on police bodycam footage telling cops Brian Laundrie left bruises on her neck.
Slain 22-year-old Petito was last seen on a Moab, Utah police officer's body camera holding her neck and explaining that her fiance Laundrie had
The August 12 video in question shows police officers from the that had turned physical.
Officer Eric Pratt wrote in a report that the two had "engaged in some sort of altercation" before police broke Petito and up.
"Did he hit you though? I mean, it's okay if you're saying you hit him. I understand if he hit you, but we want to know the truth if he actually hit you," one officer is heard on camera asking Petito.
Laundrie told the officers and instead "I pushed her away."
"She gets really worked up, and when she does she swings and she had her cell phone in her hand. So I was just trying to push her away," Laundrie said.
Pratt then wrote that "both the male and female reported they are in love and engaged to be married and desperately didn't wish to see anyone charged with a crime."
"After evaluating the totality of the circumstances, I do not believe the situation escalated to the level of a domestic assault as much as that of a mental health crisis," wrote Officer Daniel Robbins in the report.
The report said the couple heeded the officers' advice to separate, saying each had their cell phone to call 911 and described Petitio as "confused and emotional." No charges were filed.
"Yet the cop concludes Gabby is the aggressor— seemingly because his wife is crazy sometimes."
what had happened to her, given that she put her hand to her mouth to repeat how she attained the bruises.
"The first super scary indicator is where she puts her hand up to show what her fiancé allegedly did to her," said Patti Wood.
Cops and FBI detectives on September 19 and a revealed the manner of her .
Meanwhile, Laundrie was declared a “person of interest” by police investigating the probe but he was not named a suspect.
He was reported missing on September 17 – that he was going for a hike in the 25,000-acre
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