A video apparently released by ISIS appears to show the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and threaten the life of another American that is presumed to be a former UCF student.
In the video posted on Tuesday, the man believed to be Steven Sotloff is a former UCF student who grew up in Miami, according to the Miami New Times. In the video, ISIS is threatening to take his life next depending on decisions by Obama.
Even though the identity of the man in the video hasn’t been confirmed, UCF spokesperson Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala said that UCF records show a Steven Sotloff enrolled at UCF between Fall 2002 and Fall 2004 and left the university in December 2004 as a Journalism pending major.
“The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision,” the man says.
The man in the video holding a knife threatens to kill Sotloff unless Obama calls off American airstrikes against ISIS.
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Jon Williams, foreign editor for ABC News, tweeted out that Sotloff’s family had been advised to avoid spreading news of Sotloff’s kidnapping.
“Steven Sotloff was kidnapped near Aleppo on August 4th 2013. Family been following advice not to go public – believed held in Raqqa. #Syria,” Williams tweeted.
On Sotloff’s unverified Twitter account, he was last active on August 3, the day before being kidnapped.
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