FIRST ON FOX: The 911 caller who reported the domestic incident between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in Moab, Utah, believed that the couple was fighting over a phone and that Laundrie may have been trying to ditch his fiancée, according to a witness statement obtained by Fox News.
“They were talking aggressively [at] each other [and] something definitely seemed off,” the witness, identified only as Christopher, wrote. “At one point, they were sort of fighting over a phone – I think the male took the female’s phone. It appeared that he didn’t want her in the white van.”
The male, believed to be Laundrie, got into the driver’s seat, according to Christopher, and the woman, believed to be Petito, followed. It happened outside the Moonflower Cooperative – an organic grocery store in downtown Moab.
“I heard her say, ‘Why do you have to be so mean?’” the witness wrote.
He said that at one point, he saw Petito allegedly “punching him in the arm” and trying to get inside the vehicle – which was registered in her name.
“From my point of view, something definitely didn’t seem right,” Christopher wrote. “It was as if the guy was trying to leave her, and maybe take her phone? Not sure but wanted to help out.”
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