Peter Kassig or Abdul-Rahman Kassig , an Indiana native, was beheaded by ISIS on Nov. 11, after being held hostage for more than a year.

Kassig was a soldier and an American aid worker. He started out as a U.S. Army ranger in 2006 and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He was honorably discharged later that year for medical reasons. When he returned to America, he became an emergency medical technican. He went to Lebanon to help deliver food and medical supplies to the refugee camps. Kassig was detained on his way to Syria on Oct. 1, 2013.

The video of Abdul-Rahman Kassig’s beheading is violent. The video does not show the actual beheading, but the aftermath of it. President Obama released a statement saying “(Kassig) was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity.”

Kassig was a caring person who wanted to make a difference in the world. He is the fifth “westerner” beheaded by ISIS this year.