A New Jersey town is offering a reward for information about a Rutgers student missing since November.
Jackson Township officials earmarked $2,000 for tips that lead to locating 22-year-old Mortimer Wortman, a senior at Rutgers.
Mayor Jennifer Kuhn and Councilman Christopher Pollak are funding the reward themselves.
Ivan Marks, the missing man’s brother, said surveillance video shows him disappearing from a school parking lot on Nov. 21, according to NJ.com.
Nicholas Moccio, Wortman’s friend and Rutgers roommate, brought the case up at a council meeting last week.
“Mortimer’s family deserves answers,” Moccio said during the meeting. “Jackson Township residents need to be confident that this town will search when someone goes missing.”
Marks said his brother met up with a man named Adam Zalouk at the school’s parking lot the night he disappeared. Zalouk had threatened Wortman with a knife previously.
Zalouk told police they argued but Wortman ran off into the woods at Colliers Mills.
However, police have not named any suspects or persons of interest in the case.
Moccio said friends and family have continued to search the area everyday since November.
“We desperately want this young man to return to his friends and loved ones,” Kuhn and Pollak said in a joint statement. “Together we hope this reward may convince someone who saw something or heard something, to come forward.”
Wortman is described as 5’10” and 200 pounds with light skin, dark brown hair, brown eyes and piercings in his nose and ears.
A candlelight vigil for Wortman is scheduled for Sunday evening outside the Regional Day School in Jackson Township.
