Cal Ripken Jr. addressed publicly today the recent kidnapping of his 74-year-old mother, who was abducted last week from her home in Aberdeen, Md. and later found after being missing for a day.

The baseball Hall-of-Famer, who played 21 seasons for the Baltimore Orioles, appeared somber and shaken up in an interview with Good Morning America and at a press conference afterward. Vi Ripken was at home on the morning of July 24, when a gunman approached her in her garage and forced her into her car. She was found uninjured early the next morning.

“We didn’t even know that Mom was missing until a 911 call came in that identified her car,” Cal Ripken told ABC News. The kidnapper took Vi Ripken throughout Maryland, crossing through Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. She was found alone in her car in Baltimore County early July 25.

Vi Rikpen’s kidnapper is still at large. Authorities have released a composite sketch and are looking for a white male in his late 30s or early 40s who was wearing a light-colored shirt, camouflaged pants and eyeglasses.

At the press conference following his Good Morning America appearance, Cal Ripken said his mother is trying to get back to normal. She’s not yet living back at her house, but the Ripken family is trying to move beyond this strange incident. It is unclear if Vi Ripken was targeted because of her famous last name, even though, as Cal Ripken said, she is far less famous than her sons, Cal Jr. and former Major League Baseball player Billy, or her late husband, former Orioles manager Cal Ripken Sr.

“She’s very strong-willed,” Cal Ripken said. “She wants to return to having the same joyous life she had before.”

The week since the abduction has been “very uncomfortable,” he said. Ripken said that he and his siblings did not even know their mother was missing until a call from authorities about Vi Ripken’s car being identified. Ripken said he and his sister got in his car and started driving around, looking for Vi.

“We were hardening ourselves for the worst-case possibility,” he said.

Earlier this week police released surveillance video believed to depict the suspect in Vi Ripken’s kidnapping. The video was taken in front of a business in Aberdeen and shows a person fitting the kidnapper’s description.