Ten days since University of Missouri student Riley Strain went missing, more details have emerged on his movements before his disappearance in Nashville, Tennessee.
Police released new footage Monday showing Strain, 22, briefly interacting with an officer who was responding to a vehicle burglary on March 8, the night he went missing.
And his stepfather told NBC News on Monday that Strain had gone to two more bars on that same night before being kicked out of a third.
The new video shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department on social media shows Strain briskly walking past an officer on a sidewalk adjacent to the Cumberland River on Gay Street at approximately 9:52 p.m.
The video shows the officer asking how Strain is doing, to which Strain replies, “I’m good, how are you?”
In security footage taken in the minutes prior to the latest video and released by police last week, Strain can be seen stumbling at times and in one instance falling. In the video released Monday, Strain appears to be walking upright.
“To those who are saying that they believe he could have been in distress, that somebody could have been after him as he walked onto Gay Street, well, as you see in the video, he’s walking by himself on the river side and speaks to a police officer as the officer is looking at a vehicle that had been broken into,” police spokesperson Don Aaron said.
Aaron said no evidence of foul play has surfaced as police continue to try to locate Strain and that no video of Strain walking on Gay Street after 9:52 p.m. has been obtained.
Strain had been visiting Nashville with friends from his college fraternity, Delta Chi. He went missing after being kicked out of Luke’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink, a bar owned by country singer Luke Bryan in the city’s downtown.
The bar said in a statement last week that security kicked Strain out at about 9:35 p.m. “based on our conduct standards,” but did not provide further details about Strain’s behavior. It added that Strain…
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