GMA3: Friday, February 13
Good Morning America
ABC News
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From ABC News Headquarters in New York City, this is GMA3. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to begin with an alleged attempted kidnapping in Utah, the mother of a 15-year-old girl saying she knew something was wrong when she noticed the lift ride her daughter was in, was moving in the wrong direction on an app. |
| 0:19.0 | That's when she told her daughter to run for her life. |
| 0:23.2 | Dramatic surveillance video captures the moment. |
| 0:25.7 | A frightened, 15-year-old girl sprinted to safety |
| 0:29.0 | after an alleged attempted kidnapping. |
| 0:31.3 | My whole world just shattered. |
| 0:33.6 | Utah mom, Karina Ramirez, says she called a lift |
| 0:36.2 | for her daughter, Caitlin, Saturday Saturday to take her to an appointment. |
| 0:39.3 | Then just moments after the driver picked her daughter up, she says she received a chilling phone call. |
| 0:45.1 | She's like, mom, did you just cancel the lift? And I was like, no, I didn't. |
| 0:51.2 | She's like, yeah, the driver is stating that you canceled the lift. And I was like, |
| 0:55.6 | Caitlin, he just canceled the ride. He did it. She says it was the driver who canceled the ride, |
| 1:01.5 | offering to drive Caitlin to her destination anyway. But when Karina used a location sharing app to |
| 1:06.6 | track her daughter's location, she says the car was moving in the wrong direction. |
| 1:11.4 | She was like, sir, I need to get out. I can hear it in her voice that it changed. And she went, |
| 1:17.8 | Mommy, he's not listening to me. Mommy, he's not stopping the car. That's when Ramirez says |
| 1:23.6 | she told her daughter to get out of the car and run as fast as she could. |
| 1:29.2 | Police are currently investigating. |
| 1:34.4 | In a statement, Lyft saying the horrifying incident is reprehensible, adding they have removed the driver from the Lyft platform and stand ready to assist law enforcement with any investigation. |
| 1:39.6 | I'm happy she took control of the situation, And to me, she's just a brave teenager. |
| 1:47.4 | Very brave. |
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