The parents of Gabby Petito have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department in Moab, Utah, where the slain travel blogger & her boyfriend Brian Laundrie were questioned about a possible domestic dispute weeks before she was reported missing.
The lawsuit is seeking at least $50 million in damages.
The suit alleges that if the Moab police had followed a Utah law on domestic violence, "Gabby would still be alive today," James McConkie, one of the attorneys representing the family, said.
Moab police questioned Petito & Laundrie on Aug. 12, 2021, during their cross-country road trip after a 911 caller reported seeing a "gentleman slapping the girl."
Petito told police, "I definitely hit him first," & that he grabbed her face, scratching her.
Police labeled the incident as a "mental/emotional break" rather than a domestic assault.
Petito was reported her missing on Sept. 11, 2021. Her body was found about a week later in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest, with a coroner ruling that she had died of "blunt-force injuries to the head & neck, with manual strangulation."
Laundrie, who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Florida's Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, wrote in a notebook that he killed Petito.
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Source: ABC News
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