Against Utah police, Gabby Petito’s parents file $50M wrongful death suit
Before she was reported missing about a possible domestic dispute weeks later against the police department in Moab, Utah, where the slain travel blogger and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie were questioned, the parents of Gabby Petito had filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Before being filed on Thursday the lawsuit, which was initially announced in August in a notice of claim, is seeking at least $50 million in damages. During a press conference on Thursday Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said “We feel the need to bring justice because she could have been protected that day”. “There are laws put in place to protect victims; those laws were not followed. And we don’t want this to happen to anybody else”. James McConkie, one of the attorneys representing the family, said “Gabby would still be alive today”, during the briefing on domestic violence the suit alleges that if the Moab police had followed a Utah law. “by demanding accountability and working for change...