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Laundrie family attorney cancels New York press conference set for Tuesday, report says

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This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Brian Laundrie talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. The couple was pulled over while they were having an emotional fight. Petito was reported missing by her family a month later and is now the subject of a nationwide search. (The Moab Police Department via AP)

TAMPA (WFLA) – The attorney for Brian Laundrie’s family will not hold a news conference on Tuesday, pursuant to a request from the FBI that he not go ahead with it, according to NewsNation’s Brian Entin.

The news conference was previously scheduled to be held at 1 p.m. in Long Island, New York.

Laundrie, who was identified by police as a person of interest in his fiancé Gabby Petito’s disappearance, was reported missing himself on Sept. 17. Officers from the North Port Police Department and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation removed items from his family home on Monday in connection with the Petito investigation, FBI officials said.  

Remains thought to be those of Petito were found in Wyoming Sunday, but a forensic identification is still pending. The cause of death has not been released.