The Islamic State (IS) insurgent group is threatening to behead a journalist identified as Steven Joel Sotloff, who attended the University of Central Florida (UCF) as a journalism major in 2002-2004.

The group battling for control of Iraq released a gruesome video on Tuesday purporting to show American journalist James Foley being beheaded. Another man, identified as Sotloff, also appears in the video. Both Sotloff and Foley disappeared while covering the war in Syria.

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