Haunting video shows missing Missouri student Riley Strain's chance encounter ... trends now
Missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain had a chance encounter with cops on the night he vanished, where he 'did not appear distressed.'
Strain, 22, was last seen on March 8 at Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway, which is owned by country superstar Luke Bryan, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
The department on Monday shared footage on X showing Strain walking along the sidewalk past an officer, who appeared to be inspecting a car with a smashed window.
Strain says, 'How are you?' to the officer, to which the cop responds, 'How you doing sir?'
'Good you?' Strain says. 'Good,' the officer said back. Metro Nashville PD said that it is evidence the student was away from Gay St, the last place he was seen alive.
It comes as the last person to potentially see Strain said he caused a 'commotion' at a Nashville homeless encampment where the student's bank card was found.
Nashville police released this haunting image of Strain walking along the sidewalk on the night he vanished, as he asked a cop how he was before telling him that he was 'doing good'
Riley Strain, 22, was last seen on March 8 at Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway, which is owned by country superstar Luke Bryan
The Delta Chi fraternity member was in Tennessee on a group trip for their annual spring formal when he was kicked out of the bar around 10 p.m. for unknown reasons.
On Sunday, police confirmed that a bank card belonging to Strain was found on the embankment near Gay Street, which is a three-minute walk from the Downtown Smoke & Vape Shop on Church Street where he was last seen on video.
'We heard a commotion. We looked back up. He almost fell over. The last bush right there caught him,' an unidentified man who lives in the camp told WZTV.
He was very, very, very intoxicated. I never seen anybody stumble that hard before,' the man said. 'I yelled get up. They said, "He's just drunk. He's okay."'
Nashville's Office of Emergency Management used a dive team for the first time in their water searches on Saturday, but nothing conclusive was found.
On Friday, it emerged that Luke's 32 was being investigated after allegedly serving him too much alcohol.
Authorities continue to search for missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain who was last seen on March 8 at Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway
