“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.
