According to Utah Police, Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie had a physical altercation two weeks before she vanished without leaving a trace.
At around 4:30 p.m. on August 12, police were called to a downtown Moab street over “possible domestic violence” involving the pair.
“The driver of the van, a male, had some sort of argument with the female, Gabbie,” a police report stated.
“The male tried to create distance by telling Gabbie to go take a walk to calm down, 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, he tried to lock her out and succeeded except for his driver’s door, she opened that and forced her way over him and into the vehicle before it drove off.”
The officer who responded to the incident added that it would be “more accurately categorized as a mental/emotional health break than a domestic assault.”
Petito’s mom commented on the incident saying that it was “irrelevant and not a big deal.”
“Put yourself with another person in a van 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for months, and you might have an argument, right?”
