Missing 13-year-old Utah girl found unharmed

Brooklyn Gittins called her grandmother late Thursday night from a Wal-Mart store in South Jordan, Unified Police spokesman Lt. Justin Hoyal said. The woman then contacted police and officers located the child. She was uninjured and wearing the same clothes — and still without shoes or a coat.

Authorities still don't know whether to label the case a runaway or an abduction.

They know that Brooklyn Gittins crawled out of her bedroom window and left on her own accord Tuesday night. She was picked up in a car by a person or persons who then harbored her for two days, Hoyal said.

"To take somebody who is that age and leave without parental consent is problematic," he said.

The two-day search — which included about 85 police officers and firefighters each day and about 1,000 volunteers — is over, but the investigation continues in search of the people who harbored Gittins, Hoyal said. They could be facing any number of charges.

"We've got to determine what exactly took place," he said. "There are a lot of unanswered questions on our end."

The answers likely won't come until next week at the earliest, he said. Detectives who were working around the clock are getting rest.