What we know about the disappearance and death of University of Missouri student Riley Strain

University of Missouri student Riley Strain was out with his fraternity brothers in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday 8 March when he disappeared.

He’d been asked to leave a bar the Delta Chi group were hanging out in, shortly before 9.45pm, and said he was going back to their hotel.

Two weeks after he walked out of the bar, his body was discovered in the Cumberland River, some eight miles downstream from Nashville. An initial autopsy revealed no signs of foul play-related trauma.

Here is everything we know about the disappearance and death of Riley Strain.

According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, 22-year-old Riley Strain was last seen on Friday 8 March.

He was at a bar in the Broadway area of the city, Luke’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink, his family has said, and was asked to leave the nightspot at around 9.45pm.

Strain’s friends called him and he said he was going to head back to their hotel.

The young man was then seen on CCTV footage wearing a two-tone shirt, crossing 1st Avenue North to Gay Street at 9:47pm. His path was taking him further away from his hotel, and closer to the Cumberland River.

The last pings from his cellphone put him near a park in the proximity of the river on the night of 8 March.

The last time Strain was seen was on surveillance video as he was crossing to Gay Street.

Metro Nashville Police released body camera footage on 18 March showing Strain speaking to a police officer on the night of his disappearance. In the video, the officer sees Strain walking down the street and asks him how he is doing. Strain greets the officer and says he’s doing fine before continuing down the street.

Police also revealed that the final text message sent from Strian’s phone before it died said “good lops,” but it’s currently unclear what that might have meant. Some social media commenters suggested it meant “low on power, sorry,” but a friend of Strain’s, Chris Dingman, told NewsNation that Mr Strain’s phone was not low on power at the time that text was sent.

Strain had been visiting Nashville from the University of Missouri, known as Mizzou, with his fraternity.

The Delta Chi group was on its annual spring trip. The frat said that it and the university were actively involved with the search.