MAR 15, 2024
For nearly a week, there have been no signs of 22-year-old University of Missouri student Riley Strain.
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Friday, March 8
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Strain went to Luke’s 32 Bridge on Broadway Friday night, where records show he purchased and was served one alcoholic drink and two waters. Strain’s mother, Michelle Whiteid, said she FaceTimed with him just a few hours before he went missing.
At 9:35 p.m.: Strain was kicked out of the bar. In a statement, the TC Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the bar, said its security team “made a decision based on our conduct standards to escort him from the venue through our Broadway exit at the front of our building.”
He was followed down the stairs with one of his friends, according to the bar. However, his friend reportedly did not exit and returned upstairs.
Around 9:45 p.m.: Surveillance video from Downtown Smoke & Vape Shop on Church Street caught Riley stumbling and falling in a parking lot at 3rd Avenue and Church Street.
At 9:47 p.m.: Surveillance video caught Strain crossing 1st Avenue North to Gay Street.
Between 9:55 p.m. and 10 p.m.: Strain’s last phone ping was near James Robertson Parkway and Gay Street. Detectives said the last phone conversation Strain had with one of his friends was also during that same time period.
VIDEO: Retracing Riley Strain’s steps in downtown Nashville
According to police, the phone ping covered about a two-mile radius and didn’t give them a direction of travel or any more detailed information about where Strain might have gone.
Saturday, March 9
At 1:46 p.m.: Strain’s friend
called 911 after saying he went to the Central Police Precinct and called the sheriff’s office to file a missing person’s report.
Strain’s family also received a call from his fraternity brothers, alerting them that they had not seen or heard from him since Friday night. Strain’s parents said they drove to Nashville from Springfield, Missouri, as soon as they got the call.
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