Police bodycam footage has been released of officers speaking to Gabby Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, in Utah after they responded to a 911 call of a domestic incident a month before she was reported missing.
The Moab City Police Department on Thursday released the hour-long footage of their interaction with the couple when they pulled over their white van outside Arches National Park in Moab on Aug. 12.
In the footage, obtained by ABC7, Petito sobbed as she spoke to an officer.
“I have really bad OCD. I was apologizing to him saying I’m sorry I’m so mean,” Petito told the officer.
“We’ve been fighting all morning. He wouldn’t let me in the car before … he told me I needed to calm down.”
The officer let Petito sit in his squad car before going back to speak to Laundrie.
“She just gets worked up sometimes, I try to distance myself from her. I locked the car,” Laundrie told the officer.
“I said, ‘Let’s just take a breather.’ She had her phone. I was trying to push her away to say, ‘Let’s just take a step back,’” he said, adding that Petito hit him with her phone.
Laundrie also told the officer Petito had grabbed the wheel of their van to make him pull over as police were following them.
According to a police report, neither Petito nor Laundrie called 911 to report the domestic incident.
Officers did not file any criminal charges and classified the incident as a “mental/emotional health break” instead of domestic assault.
Police said the couple agreed to spend the night separately instead of charges being filed.
Petito was reported missing on Sept. 11 after going more than a week without contacting her family.
Her boyfriend returned alone in her van to the Florida home they shared on Sept. 1 and has so far refused to cooperate with authorities.
Cops in Florida declared him a person of interest Wednesday as the hunt for the missing woman grew increasingly desperate.
