February 7, 2023 12:17pm EST
Gabby Petito update: Newly released high-res photo shows injuries from Utah domestic call
Gabby Petito took the picture herself on her phone
By Michael Ruiz , Laura Ingle | Fox News Attorneys for Gabby Petito's family have released a previously unseen photo of blood on her face taken during a Utah domestic violence stop just weeks before her suspected murder at the hands of ex-fiance Brian Laundrie.
The law firm of Parker & McConkie first described the existence of the photo in a November 2022 wrongful death lawsuit against the Moab City Police Department, which encountered the travel-blogging couple on Aug. 12, 2021, after a witness reported seeing Laundrie hitting Petito and trying to take her phone and drive off without her outside the Moonflower Co-op, an organic grocer off the city's main drag.
The photo was taken by Petito herself shortly before the stop, and recovered from her phone, according to the law firm.
"According to available data, the image was taken at 4:37 p.m., at or before the approximate time of the initial 911 call," the family's attorneys said in a statement Tuesday.
As Fox News Digital was first to report, a witness called in an alleged domestic violence incident around 4:30 p.m. on the day of the incident.
Police bodycam shows Moab Police Officer Eric Pratt arriving to a stop in progress in the entrance way to Arches National Park about 15 minutes later.
Authorities interviewed the couple for nearly an hour.
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