New police body camera footage released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department on Monday shows an officer greeting Riley Strain on the night of March 8, just before she disappeared.
Strain, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Missouri, disappeared that Friday night after a night of drinking with friends during his fraternity's spring formal trip to Nashville.
“No evidence of foul play has emerged as work continues to locate Riley Strain,” MNPD said in a tweet Monday. “On Sunday evening, Riley's parents met with some members of the detective team and received a full briefing on the work being done. They were also shown the available video.”
MNPD posted the video on X. In it, an MNPD officer appears to be looking at parked vehicles following reports of a vehicle theft as Strain drives by. The pair exchange a friendly greeting and Strain continues walking in the opposite direction of the officer.
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Recently released police body camera footage shows Riley Strain greeting an officer on March 8, just before she was reported missing. (MNPD)
“Riley's brief exchange of greetings was shown. [with] “Officer Reginald Young on Gay St., south of the Woodland St. bridge, on the evening of March 8,” police said in X. “Riley did not appear distressed. Officer Young was there on a robbery call of vehicle. [and] “I stayed on that part of Gay St. for 45 minutes.”
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Chris Dingman, a close friend and spokesperson for the Strain family, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the family reviewed the video on Sunday after the 22-year-old's bank card was located on Sunday in the same area between Gay Street and the Cumberland River.
Authorities released surveillance video showing Strain walking down First Avenue north to Gay Street at 9:47 p.m. on Friday, March 8, where he was seen wearing the same black and brown shirt his friends saw him wearing. last time. (A voice for the voiceless/Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
Authorities previously said Strain's phone last rang on Gay Street on the night of March 8.
“He was in a location extremely close to where the last ping came from his phone,” Dingman said.
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Police K-9s and a detective arrived at the scene shortly after Strain's card was found to search the area, he said.
Missouri student Riley Strain, 22, has been missing since March 8 after disappearing in downtown Nashville. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
Before his phone rang on Gay Street, Strain was last seen by friends at Luke Bryan's bar, Luke's 32, on Broadway in downtown Nashville. The bar said in a statement that it served Strain a drink before staff asked him to leave.
“At 9:35 p.m., our security team made the decision, based on our standards of conduct, to escort him from the venue through our Broadway exit at the front of our building,” the bar said in a statement. March, 15th. “They followed him downstairs with a member of his party. The individual who was with Riley did not leave and returned upstairs.”
Riley Strain was last seen at Luke Bryan's bar in downtown Nashville shortly before 10 pm on Friday, March 8. (Google Maps)
Police also showed the family a video of Strain at Luke's 32, Dingman said, adding that there was “no physical disturbance with anyone in the bar, male or female.”
“That's what really surprised the family: when we found out, first of all, they asked him to leave because Riley is not very confrontational and is very courteous and a gentleman,” Dingman said.
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TC Restaurant Group indicated that they are working closely with the authorities in the search for the missing university student.
After leaving the bar, Strain told his friends that he would return to his accommodation at Tempo by Hilton, which is about five blocks from Luke's 32, since FOX 17 first reported.
When his friends didn't see him again at his hotel that same night, they filed a missing person report, Strain's cousin Chelsea Strain previously told Fox News Digital.
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“My family left as soon as they heard the news, along with his dad and stepmom. He's not one to leave and not call anyone,” she said. “I talked to him every week, if not every other day, to see how he was doing. He talks to his mom more than once a day. We're all worried. My family, along with his dad, his stepmom and his stepbrothers, “Everyone We just want him at home. We want to hug him and love him. We want to see him graduate in May from Mizzou. He has a bright future ahead of him.”
