The bank card belonging to a college student who went missing after being kicked out of a Nashville bar run by country artist Luke Bryan after being “overserved” was found Sunday by police near a river in the area.
Riley Strain, a 22-year-old University of Missouri student, disappeared on March 8 from Luke’s 32 Bridge Food and Drink on Broadway in the city’s honky-tonk district.
But Metro Nashville Police Department had a lead Sunday afternoon when they found Strain’s bank card on the Cumberland River levee. According to a report on Fox News.
“This afternoon, Riley Strain’s bank card was discovered on the embankment between Gay Street and the Cumberland River. The search for him continues,” police said in a post to X.
Police and his family said Strain was last seen walking down Gay Street around 10 p.m. after being kicked out of a bar for getting too drunk.
The student, who was visiting Music City with his Delta Chi fraternity brothers, told friends he was returning to the hotel, but never arrived.
Phone tracking shows he was last seen about a half-mile from the bar between Gay Street and James Robertson Parkway. It is a few meters from the river and the Woodland Street Bridge.
Surveillance video shows Strain walking in the direction of the hotel and then taking a wrong turn.
Strain’s parents claim a bartender at the restaurant told them their son was overserved and was about to pay when he was set up.
However, the bar claimed they only served one alcoholic drink and two glasses of water.
“This is definitely your worst nightmare,” Strain’s stepfather, Chris Whyed, said last week. “He talks to his mother three or four times a day. It’s never normal for him to go this long without talking.”
