A Florida mother is being praised after she thwarted a kidnapping suspect who allegedly grabbed the woman’s 13-year-old daughter and tried to run out of a store Tuesday, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said.

The sheriff’s office was called about the attempted abduction at a Dollar General store in Hernando at 11:42 a.m., but an off-duty sheriff’s deputy was outside the business and arrested Craig Bonello as he tried to flee in a vehicle, the sheriff’s office said.

Bonello, 30, of Hernando, allegedly grabbed the teen and tried to drag her out of the store, but the girl’s mother caught up to him and freed her after a “tug of war,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

The incident was caught on a shocking video that was posted to the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page.

“In my 10 years on the road I have never seen anything like this,” Sgt. Craig Callahan said in a statement from the sheriff’s office. “He truly intended to abduct this child right in front of everyone in the store.”