Police in North Port, Fla., swarmed the neighborhood around Brian Laundrie’s parent’s home late Friday after a reportedly bogus 911 call about gunshots in the area.
Cops surrounded the Laundrie home just before 7 p.m. and one went inside after a call from an unknown number, local NBC affiliate WFLA reported.
Police found no evidence of shots fired after knocking on neighbors’ doors.
“Right now, there is no evidence any shots were actually fired in the area,” North Port police spokesman Josh Taylor told Fox News. There are also no reports from the large contingency of media who were standing outside the home, at the time.”
The search for Laundrie resumed Saturday morning in the Carlton Reserve, the 25,000- acre nature preserve where cops believe he slipped away last week. The 23-year-old, named a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, left home on Sept. 21 without his cell phone or his wallet, his family’s lawyer said.
Laundrie is now dodging an arrest warrant for using Petito’s debit card on Aug. 20 and Sept. 1, presumably as he drove her van from Wyoming, where her body was found last Sunday, to his parent’s home in Florida.
Additional reporting by Jack Morphet