Riley Strain Video Reveals Three People Nearby Just Before He Went Missing

Police would like to interview people who were close to a student found dead in a river in Nashville, Tennessee, although no foul play is suspected.

The Metro Nashville Police Department on Friday said a body that was found in the Cumberland River was identified as University of Missouri student Riley Strain, who had been missing since March 8.

The last known video of Riley shows grainy, distant video of three people nearby. Police only want to interview people to establish his movements.

Police have already located a couple who saw Strain, whom they said appeared to be heavily inebriated. The couple asked him if he was OK before he continued walking. The footage was recorded near the James Robertson Parkway Bridge in Nashville.

Family Chris Dingman told NewsNation before Strain's body was found that a retired FBI agent put them in touch with the couple, who felt guilty that they didn't do more to help. Dingman told them that they had nothing to feel ashamed about as they were the only ones who were compassionate enough to ask him if he was OK.

He also said that a member of Strain's fraternity had called him as he was walking. Dingman said the call was probably to establish if Strain was safe as he had not returned to the hotel.

Separate police bodycam footage shows two seconds of Riley walking by the police officer, who was investigating a separate matter.

Dingman told NewsNation that the family is considering the possibility that he was mistakenly walking toward a hotel that had a similar name to the one where he and others from his college fraternity were staying.

Strain, 22, was on a trip to Nashville with his fraternity brothers when he disappeared. Surveillance footage shows him stumbling and struggling to walk in a straight line after he became separated from his friends after he was kicked out of country music star Luke Bryan's bar, Luke's 32 Bridge.

Police confirmed that Strain's body was found in the Cumberland River in West Nashville, about 8 miles from downtown, on Friday morning.

"No foul play-related trauma was observed," Nashville police wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

There are unanswered questions surrounding Strain's final moments, but Nashville police said an autopsy is pending.

Strain's family has yet to speak out after his body was found. During the search, Strain's stepfather, Chris Whiteid said at a news conference: "We appreciate more than you'll ever know the outpouring that we've received from the community, from the press, and everyone else involved."