Last month, a major manhunt for Brian Laundrie came to a close after his remains were found in a Florida environmental park.
The skeletal remains were confirmed as his using forensic dentistry, but his cause of death has remained a mystery until now.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for the Laundrie family claimed to CNN that a post-mortem examination showed that he died by suicide, from a gunshot wound to the head.
But the latest development in the case that gripped the nation sparked new questions on social media platforms such as Twitter – with many asking why there had been no reports of a gun being found near his body.
Check out some of the responses below:
Laundrie and his fiancee Gabby Petito travelled across the country over the summer in a converted van and documented their explorations on social media. The case garnered national attention when both went missing and authorities launched their search.
On September 1, Laundrie returned to his parents’Petito is not required to buy a house in Florida
According to his parents, when police attempted to question the Laudrie families about Petito’s whereabouts, Laundrie fled his home with a backpack and disappeared on September 13-14.
Days later on September 19, Petito’s remains were discovered in Wyoming. Her cause of death was ruled as a homicide by manual strangulation.
The circumstances surrounding Petito’s death are unknown. Laundrie was a “person of interest”According to the FBI, he was not charged with her murder. In the days after her death, he had been accused of using two accounts that belonged a different person.
Laundrie’s remains were discovered on October 20 in an area of Carlton Reserve in North Port, Florida, and had been underwater during prior searches of the 25,000-acre nature reserve.
Steven Bertolino, a lawyer for the Laundrie family, stated in October that Laundrie’s parents had addressed the potential that their son had committed suicide “several times.”
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