Where on Long Island did Gabby Petito grow up?

Q: Where is Gabby Petito from on Long Island?

BLUE POINT, NY—Blue Point was Gabby Petitos hometown on Long Island, and now one artistic memorial will remain a permanent reminder of the slain 22-year-olds impact on her community and beyond.

For a week, community members on Long Island kept Gabby Petito in their thoughts, hoping that the 22-year-old who grew up in Blue Point would be found safe after she went missing while on a cross-country road trip with her fiancé.

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Anyone with information about Gabby Petito‘s death is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.
Where is Gabby Petito from on Long Island?
Where did Gabby Petito live in New York?
What town in Long Island was Gabby from?
Where did Gabby Petito family live?

Now they're preparing to mourn her death and honor her life with a memorial.

The candlelight vigil in Petito's hometown is planned for 7 p.m. Friday at Blue Point Nature Preserve. Moloney's Holbrook Funeral Home will be open Sunday for public visitation between 12 and 5 p.m.

Those who knew the Petito family and those who were simply touched by Gabby's story all showed up Thursday to leave flowers, signs and other items at a mural showing her with angel wings.

"You walk into the room and she just lit up the entire room. She was always happy, always smiling. You'd never think anything like this would happen to her," said Tori Moretti, a childhood friend of Gabby.

Petito was reported missing Sept. 11 by her parents after she did not respond to calls and texts for several days while she and her fiancé Brian Laundrie visited parks in the West. Her body was discovered Sunday in the vicinity of a remote, undeveloped campground along the border of Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming and her death has been deemed a homicide.

Her story captured national interest as it generated a whirlwind of news coverage and a frenzy of online sleuthing, with tips, possible sightings and theories shared by the hundreds of thousands online. Josephine Zambrano of Bayport, Long Island, says she was one of those people because she felt for Gabby as a mother herself.

"We all have children. Whether you have daughters like I do, or you have sons. Everybody's just upset," Zambrano said Thursday at the memorial site.

Many visitors left a $20 dollar donation for sand, paper bags and candles. The items are the making of luminaries, a way to light up the night in Gabby's honor. All the proceeds will be donated to the Petito family, organizers said.

Among many tributes left for Gabby, teal ribbons now line the Blue Point street where she grew up. The ribbons were left by Jennifer McNamara, a Petito family friend and the founder of the Johnny Mac Foundation who created the nonprofit after her husband, FDNY firefighter John McNamara, died of 9/11-related cancer.

"I want people to look at the ribbon and remember Gabby. Think of her eyes and how beautiful, vibrant and sparkling she was," McNamara said. Gabby's mother, Nichole Schmidt, is a longtime volunteer and current Johnny Mac Board Member, according to McNamara.

“Gabby Petito has become America’s child,” she added.

On Sept. 11, the family of 22-year-old Gabby Petito reported her missing to authorities in Suffolk County, New York. This is a timeline of events that led to the report and things that have occurred since.

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Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito was originally from Blue Point, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. Her parentsJoseph “Joe” Petitoand Nichole Durivou Schmidt are not married.

Joe is married to Tara Petito. Schmidt is married to James “Jim” Schmidt.

Gabby had several tattoos, including one on her forearm that reads, “Let it be.” Here are 13 more things about her:

She was 5’5″ tall and weighed 110 lbs. (a)
In July 2014, she visited Davis Park, Fire Island in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. (b)
In December 2016, she visited Costa Rica. (b)
In 2019, she started dating Brian Laundrie and moved with him in his family home in North Port, Florida, USA where they lived with his parents. They both graduated from Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, Town of Islip, Suffolk County. Also in 2019, she worked as a staffer for NOLE Café juice bar in Patchogue, Suffolk County. Mackenzie Miller owned the eatery, which closed in 2020. (a)(c)(d)
In June 2020, she visited the Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins in Georgia, USA. (b)
In July 2020, Laundrie proposed to her and she said yes. (b)
In June 2021, her father moved from Selden, New York to Vero Beach, Florida in part to be closer to her. On June 17, 2021, she and Laundrie arrived in Blue Point and attended her brother’s high school graduation. (c)
Amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2021, she quit her job to pursue her dream to become a travel blogger. On July 2, 2021, she left with Laundrie from Blue Point for their cross-country camping trip. She planned to visit a family friend in Portland, Oregon, USA around Halloween. The couple travelled across the U.S. in a white 2012 Ford Transit van with a Florida license plate. (a)(c)
On August 12, 2021, a witness saw her and Laundrie arguing over a phone while their 2012 Ford Transit van was parked near Moonflower Community Cooperative in Moab, Utah. The responding Moab Police Department officers determined that insufficient evidence existed to justify criminal charges. He told one of the officers that she tried to slap him because she thought he was going to leave her in Moab without a ride. That night, he stayed in a hotel while she stayed with their van. (c)(d)(e)
On August 19, 2021, she uploaded a YouTube video featuring a glimpse into her van adventures with Laundrie. In the caption, she explained that after their first cross country trip in a Nissan Sentra, they both decided to downsize their lives and travel full-time so they handcrafted their 2012 Ford Transit van. In the video, he is briefly seen reading Jeff VanderMeer‘s novel “Annihilation.” While they were in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah on August 21, 2021, her father placed an Uber Eats order for her because she did not have WiFi due to power outage. (e)(f)(g)
On August 24, 2021, she and Laundrie were at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. That day, they left Salt Lake City for Grand Teton National Park in Teton County, Wyoming, USA. On August 25, 2021, her mother spoke to her on a FaceTime call and she took to Instagram to share photos of herself with a caption, “Happy Halloween.” On August 27, 2021, her mother received a text message sent from her that read, “Can you help Stan, I just keep getting his voicemeails and missed calls.” Stan is reportedly her grandfather and she never called him Stan, according to her mother. The last text message her mother received from her cellphone was on August 30, 2021, which read, “No service in Yosemite.” (a)(b)(h)(i)
On September 11, 2021, her mother reported her missing to the Suffolk County Police Department. On September 15, 2021, Laundrie was named a person of interest in her disappearance. On September 17, 2021, his parents reported him missing. (a)(h)(i)
On September 19, 2021, she was found deceased at the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area in the Bridger-Teton National Forest on the east boundary of Grand Teton National Park. She died at the age of 22. On September 21, 2021, Teton County coroner Dr. Brent Blue made an initial determination that she died by homicide. On October 12, 2021, Blue said she was strangled to death three to four weeks before her body was found. (i)(j)(k)(l)

SOURCES:

a. NBC News
b. Gabrielle Petito
c. Newsday
d. Greater Sayville
e. Fox News
f. Gabrielle Petito
g. KSL TV
h. WFLA
i. CNN
j. FBI Denver
k. North Port Police Department
l. NPR

Anyone with information about Gabby Petito‘s death is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Where is Gabby Petito from on Long Island?

BLUE POINT, NY—Blue Point was Gabby Petito's hometown on Long Island, and now one artistic memorial will remain a permanent reminder of the slain 22-year-old's impact on her community and beyond.

Where did Gabby Petito live in New York?

The couple had been in Blue Point, New York, where Petito is originally from, to celebrate her younger brother's graduation from high school. They departed New York on July 2 on a planned four-month cross-country journey.

What town in Long Island was Gabby from?

BLUE POINT, Long Island (WABC) -- There are hundreds of teal ribbons up already in Blue Point, the hometown of Gabby Petito where hearts were broken this past week.

Where did Gabby Petito family live?

The couple had met years earlier on Long Island, New York, where they grew up and later moved into the North Port home with Brian's parents. Laundrie arrived back in North Port on Sept. 1 — with the van, but without Petito.