A Rutgers University student missing for over two weeks was last seen hitching a ride with an acquaintance who his family claimed was arrested for threatening him with a knife over the summer.

Mortimer “Morty” Wortman IV, a 22-year-old senior at Rutgers University, was last seen on surveillance footage in the Regional Day School parking lot in Jackson, NJ, on the evening of Nov. 21, where his car was later found, News 12 New Jersey reported.

In the footage, Wortman enters a vehicle and the pair drives off.

Wortman’s family told CBS News that the same driver threatened him with a knife over the summer.

“He was chasing my son somewhere around town in Point Pleasant. The public called, and he got arrested. There was no bail. They let him out,” his father, Mortimer Wortman III, told th

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