The Metro Nashville Police Department is looking for a missing University of Missouri student who disappeared during a visit to Nashville over the weekend.
Riley Strain, 22, was last seen by friends Friday night at a Broadway bar, police said in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
Strain is 6’5″ tall with a thin build, blue eyes and light brown hair.
The university said in a Monday news release that Strain was in Nashville to attend a “private event.”
Where was Riley Strain last seen?
Strain was out with a group of Delta Chi fraternity brothers Friday night when he got kicked out of Luke Bryan’s about 10 p.m.
His friend told police that they got separated and lost sight of Strain, according to a police report. They tried using his location on Snapchat to find him but were unsuccessful. Calls to Strain went straight to voicemail, the report said, and he was not found at their hotel on Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, about five blocks from the bar.
Nashville police say he was last seen on Gay Street at 9:52 p.m. Friday, March 8, after drinking downtown.
Police searched the area Monday, including the riverbank, by air with helicopters and a drone, as well as on the ground but found nothing.
The Office of Emergency Management launched a boat Tuesday morning to search the Cumberland River in coordination with police, spokesperson Kendra Loney said.
University of Missouri involved in search
Authorities there have been in touch with the student’s family as well as local law enforcement, the university’s release noted.
“The safety of our community is our highest priority,” Angela King Taylor, interim vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said in the university’s release. “Our thoughts are with Riley’s family as the search continues. We will be offering any support to them that we can, and we encourage anyone who needs help to reach out to our counseling resources.”
Anyone with information about Strain’s whereabouts is asked to call Metro Police at 615-862-8600 or the MU Police Department at 573-882-7201.
Video released of Riley Strain
Metro Nashville police released video surveillance of Strain crossing 1st Avenue North to Gay Street.
About 11 seconds into the 44 second clip, Strain, wearing a split color black and tan button down comes into frame from the right side. He stops momentarily in front of a “road closed” sign. He appears to look at his phone from an arms length away then continues on stumbling over himself at times.
Strain finishes crossing the street, then stops and looks back turning around, stumbling toward the direction he came from. He then turns back around, arms limply swinging, and follows the crowd of people who passed him continuing out of camera view toward Gay Street.
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