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911 calls capture pleas for help as 13-year-old girl escapes attempted kidnapping near Miramar gas station

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM · 1 min read
911 calls capture pleas for help as 13-year-old girl escapes attempted kidnapping near Miramar gas station — WSVN 7 Broward, Pembroke Pines Community news
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New 911 call audio captured the pleas for help as witnesses reported an ongoing kidnapping attempt outside of a Miramar gas station. 911, what s the address of the emergency? a 911 operator asked. A guy on a scooter, it looked like he tried to grab a kid, the caller said. What did he try? the 911 operator asked. He tried to grab a kid, the caller said. The call came in as witnesses saw a man appearing to kidnap a 13-year-old girl near a Shell gas station on South State Road 7, Monday. Surveillance video obtained by 7News shows the man approaching the child then wrapping his arm around her body and then her neck as he walks alongside her. [He] starts to engage the child in conversation then places his arm around the child, and then puts the child in a headlock and tries to take the child away, said Miramar Police Chief Delrish Moss. Footage shows the young girl slip out of the man s grip a short time later. 7News spoke with a good Samaritan off-camer

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