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While traveling in Utah, Gabby Petito told a police officer that her fiance Brian Laundrie had assaulted her during an argument on August 12, according to bodycam video footage that Fox News got a hold of on Thursday.
Allegedly, the attack happened not long after the couple was stopped by police at the entrance of the Arches National Park. Someone called 911 and told the dispatcher that he spotted a man slapping a woman outside of an organic grocery store in Moab.
While driving Petito’s 2012 white Ford Transit, Laundrie, 23, slammed the vehicle into a curb when police flashed their lights. Laundrie told police that Petito pulled on the wheel.
At the time of the stop, Petito was “crying uncontrollably” and Laundrie had “minor visible scratches” to his face and there were “small scratches” on his right arm, officers wrote in the report.
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“Did he hit you though?” an officer asked Petito, according to Fox News, that secured a second bodycam video from police at the scene.
“I guess. I guess, yea,” Petito crying replied. She continued. “But I hit him first.”
“Where did he hit you?” the officer asked. “Don’t worry, just be honest.”
“He didn’t like hit me in the face,” Petito said to the officer. This was around two weeks before she was last seen alive. “He didn’t like punch me in the face or anything.”
“Did he slap your face, or what?” the officer asked.
“Well he like, grabbed me with his nail, and I guess that’s why it looks. I definitely have a cut right here,” she told the officer as she rubbed her cheek. “I can feel it, when I touch it, it burns.”
Petito continued. “He got really frustrated with me, and he locked me out of the car and told me to go take a breather, but I didn’t want to take a breather. And I wanted to get going. We’re out of water.”
The new video reportedly shows the witness admitting that he didn’t see Laundrie “strike the female” when police directly asked him.
“You did see her slapping him though it sounds like,” the officer asked the witness.
“Yes,” the witness said.
Laundrie has been on the run as a fugitive for over two weeks, while police continue to investigate the murder of Gabby Petitio, 22, whose body was found on September 19 in a park in Wyoming.
The Moab City Police Department has an internal investigation going on as they take a look at whether the police mishandled the whole situation by allowing the two to drive off without pressing any charges.
Moab City Police Department Chief Bret Edge took a leave of absence earlier this week as internal investigators look into whether the cops mishandled the situation by letting the couple drive off without pressing charges.
A city spokeswoman confirmed that the Chief has gone on leave on Monday, which he did so under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The law allows eligible employees to take a limited amount of unpaid leave if the reason qualifies.
The spokeswoman refused to give out any other information about Edge’s leave and did not confirm or deny if his leave was related to the Petito case.
On Thursday, the city revealed that an agency outside the department will investigate the department’s handling of Petito and Laundrie’s case.
The two officers who made the stop were later joined by two US Park Rangers at the traffic scene, footage of which led former “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh to call Petito a victim of “classic domestic abuse.”
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